Banipal 71 Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous David Douglas ‘What makes 'Dockers & Detectives'

‘What makes 'Dockers & Detectives' a good read is the quality of intelligent thoughtfulness that suffuses the book

changing landscapes

Language Acts (which he co-edited with Jason Camlot)

and set a precedent repeated later in his friendship with Murdoch

and through literary translation

Banipal 71 Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous David Douglas ‘What makes 'Dockers & Detectives'Banipal 71 Salutes Ihsan Abdel Kouddous commemorates two great Arab authors and introduces new literature in translation, plus reviews and photo report. We say Farewell to the inimitable Iraqi poet Saadi Youssef, the last communist, who passed away on 13 June. In a special feature we salute the prolific Egyptian writer Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (19191990), whose stories and novels were adapted into dozens of films, but hardly translated into English. With