Elias Khoury is, with Hanan al-Shaykh, Lebanon’s best-known and most widely acclaimed living novelist. It was Khoury’s 1998 novel, Gate of the Sun, that propelled him to this (co-)position. In the original, باب […]
Last night, author Elias Khoury, translator Humphrey Davies, and filmmaker Yusry Nasrallah spoke about the novel(s) and film باب الشمس (Gate of the Sun) in the context of “Translating Palestine” at the AUC’s downtown campus.
Courrier International has publicized the list of ten finalists for the 2011 PCI, a “prix du meilleur livre étranger.” One of these books is translated by Edwige Lambert from the Arabic: […]
The “Translating Palestine” talk—featuring Humphrey Davies, Elias Khoury, and filmmaker Yousry Nasrallah—is set for tonight at 6 p.m. at the AUC’s downtown campus. It’s scheduled to be held in the […]
The question is a little forward: Clearly, we need to pay our teachers a decent wage, and give them acceptable working conditions, first. Without teachers, no readers. Without readers, no […]
This is the start of the U.S.-based “Banned Books Week,” a week that highlights the benefits of free access to books and the harm that comes from censorship. Although “Banned […]
I look forward to getting copies of all these books soon, and to talking with Robin Moger, Max Weiss, Adam Talib, and Chip Rossetti about the translations. Vertigo By Ahmed […]
David Colmer was born in Adelaide in 1960. Since moving to Amsterdam in the early 1990s, he has published a wide range of translations of Dutch literature, including the brilliant, […]
At least four “100 Thousand Poets for Change” events will take place on Saturday, September 24 in Arab countries: two in Cairo, one in Alexandria, and one in Sharjah. There […]
