Bernard Kops' East End Jeffrey Wainwright After a lifetime working as

After a lifetime working as a professor of Arabic literature and a translator of contemporary Arab authors into English

Banipal 31 presents the first of a three-part series on Syrian literature

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Bernard Kops' East End Jeffrey Wainwright After a lifetime working asBernard Kops is one of the best known playwrights of his time. He achieved recognition with his first play The Hamlet of Stepney Green, which has been performed worldwide. He has subsequently written more than forty plays for stage and radio, nine novels, seven volumes of poetry and two volumes of autobiography. His Dreams of Anne Frank tours constantly. Bernard Kops is still writing, receiving recently a major award from the Arts Council to develop a