Banipal Magazine - Issue 20 Christine McNeill Mourid Barghouti has spent many

Mourid Barghouti has spent many years in exile

who write an incisive introduction about the North-East’s poetry culture

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Banipal Magazine - Issue 20 Christine McNeill Mourid Barghouti has spent manyBanipal takes its name from Ashurbanipal, last great KIssue 20 features the great Iraqi poet, Saadi Youseef "I have trained myself, hard, to be free" In this interview, Saadi Youssef speaks about his relations with Badr Shakir al Sayyab, his admiration of the Greek poet Cavafy and his enduring passion for translation. He speaks at length about al Sayyab and the poets he loves and it was with difficulty that I persuaded him to talk about himself, he is