Banipal Magazine - Issue 28 Julia Deakin A phone call from a

A phone call from a distant hospital summons him to the bedside of his father

Some seem to have sought connections to dead relatives who live on in memory or genetic inheritance

are settling on my head

This book describes the private lives of these secret Jews

Banipal Magazine - Issue 28 Julia Deakin A phone call from aEvery issue now we seem to be saying farewell to a well known Arab literary figure. This time, we open sadly with a tribute to Mai Ghoussoub, the London based Lebanese co founder of Al Saqi Books, writer and artist, who died so suddenly in February. We dedicate our major feature on Lebanese poetry to her memory. Lebanese poets occupy an extremely important place in the Arab poetry scene, both contemporaneously and historically; this feature presents