Arabic Translation Challenge: ‘An Angel Appears’
“The beginning, we choose. / But the end chooses us. / And there is no road but the road.”
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Posts by Marcia Lynx Qualey:
Lock-in Literature: Tareq Emam’s ‘The Tale of the Woman with One Eye’
“Long ago in the City of Walls, you could see the enormous mountain of dark-blue kohl towering over the city no matter where you stood.”
Sunday Submissions: Tolsun Books ‘Translation Chapbook Contest’
“Because we understand that competition entrance fees can exclude some writers, submission fees will be waived on June 15th and July 15th.”
‘Avarice and Fury’
spotted lion, tense/
tired of lockdown/
take the cheetah hunting?/
wait and pine/
Bulaq Episode 50: ‘Kitchen Talk’
“With special guest Anny Gaul, we talk about the origins of national dishes such as couscous and koshary; medieval Arabic cook books; and representations of kitchens and cooking in Egyptian literature. “
Friday Finds: Lina Mounzer Translates Mazen Maarouf
“We never suspected that the Lion Cub was not, in fact, a lion cub until his bicycle was stolen.”
Marilyn Booth: ‘I Try To Let the Arabic Guide Me’
“Often being literal — or almost literal — is the best way to do it. So I try to let the Arabic guide me. I’m also a translator who often leaves quite a lot of Arabic in the text, and I have to come up with ways of explaining that but without being heavy about it.”
Stéphanie Dujols: ‘The More I Translate the More Nervous I Get’
“We compare ourselves to others who are worse off, but for me the minimum wage would be a dream. At Angoulême [comics festival] comics artists talked a lot about how they lived under the poverty line.”
Arabic Translation Challenge #4: ‘Like a Lion with Spots’
“Abu Nuwas’s answer to The Tiger King.”