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Banipal Magazine - Issue 27 John Clare That Was the Week ThatFarewell, Naguib Mahfouz! The issue opens with tributes to the writer of the world, the late Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, by Banipals editor and contributing editors Roger Allen and Peter Clark. Further on in the issue, the well known Iraqi author Jalil al Qaisi is remembered by Fadhil al Azzawi. Fourteen fiction writers dominate this issue, among them ten women authors. Basra is the setting for two disturbing but gripping stories by Iraqi author