Banipal 62 – A Literary Journey through Arab CinemaBanipal 62 A Literary Journey through Arab Cinema is a special collaboration with Londons SAFAR Arab film festival (13 18 September) and features articles and reviews on book and film pairs, including Horses of God, Men in the Sun, The Wedding of Zein, For Bread Alone and Gate of the Sun, plus presentations and an interview with Daoud Abdel Sayed, director of the famous Egyptian film Kit Kat, adapted from the novel The Heron. Banipal 62 also

a contribution to the process of recovering these terrible events from official silence and collective amnesia

Mohammad al-Maghut – Five Poems

Catullus in Scots

is included in the Field Day Anthology: Vols

He pulls no punches

Jane Spender

Travel is a recurring theme throughout these poems

get down to work

two Iraqi novelists – Duna Ghali

The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf by Mohja Kahf

Israel and Australia begins the voyage of discovery

and contemporary photographs