Palestinian novelist Raba’i al-Madhoun and American translator Elliott Colla recently were interviewed by BBC’s Razi Iqbal. Colla talked a little about his life-journey and how he came to translate al-Madhoun’s “The Lady from Tel Aviv.”
If you’ll be in Marrakech on the 24th and 25th of this month, Dar al-Ma’mûn’s Translating in/Justice is free. If you’re not, you could always make it a resolution (’tis the season) to think more about the connections between justice and translation.
Often enough, I hear from new readers that ArabLit is just “too much,” and that the site lacks a good entry point for the reader who wants to know: Where do I start?
