18 Classic Arab and Arabic Book-to-Film Translations
Taken from our Friday Films series, these have been narrowed to the classic book-film combinations where the film can be watched (for free) online.
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What’s So Scary About ‘Syria Speaks,’ Collection That Got Faizah Shaheen Questioned Under Terrorism Act?
“Zaytoun, the Little Refugee, from the Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus, is a political, artistic and educational project, which contests the monopoly of power to write history.”
This Year’s University of Iowa IWP Residents Include Khaled Khamissi, Mortada Gzar
“You can read excerpts from Khamissi’s Taxi (trans. Jonathan Wright) and Gzar’s Sayyid Asghar Akbar (trans. Yasmeen Hanoosh) on the IWP website.”
‘Women in Translation’ Month, and 5 New or Forthcoming Books by Arab Women
“Women writers represent only about 30 percent of what’s translated into English.”
‘Talking Forever’: A Poem for Dareen Tatour by Naomi Shihab Nye
“Dareen, trapped in her house for using the word “Resist” – she was there
and we were everywhere else. “
Books Inside Books: An Infinite History of Modern Libya
“To help me explore Hisham Matar’s The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land In Between (2016), I ordered a sneeze-inducing, water-stained copy of Knud Holmboe’s Desert Encounter: An Adventurous Journey Through Italian Africa (my copy was printed in 1937), re-read parts of Alessandro Spina’s Confines of the Shadow epic, and even, among other things, pulled Dante off the shelf.”
Sunday Submissions: ‘Making Mirrors’: Righting/Writing by Refugees
“We have some idea of what it will look like but in many ways, this crisis will require new skills, approaches, networks… that will necessarily be collaborative.”
Emma Ramadan Receives PEN/Heim Grant to Translate Ahmed Bouanani’s ‘Les Persiennes’
“This volume of prose poems—by turns haunting, elegant, and surreal—is a key text by a major Francophone Moroccan poet and filmmaker, deftly translated by Emma Ramadan.”
Friday Films: ‘The Collar and the Bracelet,’ Based on a Novella by Yahya Taher
“The Collar and the Bracelet, which has been beautifully translated by Samah Selim, was also translated to film by Khairy Beshara in 1986 and named one of the Best 15 Films of the Last 100 Years, as chosen by 20 critics. “