The Challenges (and Opportunities) Translating Le Guin’s ‘Wizard of Earthsea’ into Arabic
But the space created by Harry Potter, Elnamoury said, made it easier to solve many of these problems with a “strategy of preservation and transliteration.”
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Friday Finds: Rare Video Interview of Ghassan Kanafani, Online
According to Hajaj, the interview, excerpted below, was filmed in Beirut, and “has only been recently uncovered by my dear friend James Carleton.”
Egyptian Novelist Nasser Iraq Wins Katara’s Top Prize for 2016
“This year, the overall published-novel prize went to Dubai-based Egyptian writer Nasser Iraq, for his “Azbakeya” (2015), a historical novel set in Egypt in Napoleon’s time.”
Bruce Fudge on the Differences Between ‘A Hundred and One Nights’ and the ‘1,001’
Let’s talk about the chicken and the egg: Which came first, the 101 Nights or the 1001?
Good Morning, Ladbrokes: Nobel Betting Beyond Adonis and Nawal El Saadawi
Ladbrokes suggests they let the market determine the shortlist. However, their market seems to be a bit hung up on 1999.
‘Blind Spots: A Millennium of Arabic in Translation’
Shammas is currently at work on a collection ‘Blind Spots and Other Essays on Translation.'”
Sunday Submissions: The ‘Close Approximations’ Translation Prize is Back
“The deadline is February 1, 2017.”
Launch Events and More for Long-awaited ‘Iraq + 100’
The PEN-supported collection features writing by the pseudonymous Anoud, as well as Hassan Abdulrazzak, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, Zhraa Alhaboby, Ali Bader, Hassan Blasim, Mortada Gzar, Jalal Hasan, Diaa Jubaili and Khalid Kaki.
Friday Finds: War in Translation and Giving Voice to the Women of Syria
This week, it’s Lebanese writer Lina Mounzer’s beautifully conceived and tightly written essay, “War in Translation: Giving Voice to the Women of Syria.”