Banipal Magazine - Issue 25 Meg Peacocke where she works as a

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Banipal Magazine - Issue 25 Meg Peacocke where she works as aBanipal 25 opens with a tribute to the late poet Mohammed al Maghut whose death we learnt of as we were going to press. Little known in the West, al Maghut was almost a household name in the Arab world, the influence of his innovative and lyrical poetic style (in just three collections) on generations of Arab poets since the late 1960s having been phenomenal. We were sad also to announce the death on 14 March 2006 of the pioneering Iraqi author Mahdi