Banipal 34 – The World of Arab Fiction Waleed Khazendar The bed of poverty

The bed of poverty

many of which are published here for the first time

HM Enzensberger

I play with their mirror-image of memory

surpassing the booms of the city’s nineteenth century heyday

Banipal 34 – The World of Arab Fiction Waleed Khazendar The bed of povertyBanipal 34 Spring 2009 The first issue this year is devoted to fiction writers from all over the Arab world from Egypt and Iraq, from Libya, Morocco, Palestine and Syria, and from Saudi Arabia. But we begin with tributes to the great writer Tayeb Salih, who sadly passed away in February and also pay tribute to two writers, Bassam Hajjar from Lebanon, and Yusuf Abu Rayya from Egypt, both aged 54. TAYEB SALIH (19292009) Tribute by Denys Johnson Davies