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Category: Arabic Translation Challenge

June 27, 2020June 28, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge

‘Here Comes the Ripper’

"Lion’s fangs glimmer / You smile in return, but / Here comes the ripper"

June 23, 2020June 27, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge

Arabic Translation Challenge: If You See His Fangs Bared …

إذا رَأيْتَ نُيُوبَ اللّيْثِ بارِزَةً   *   فَلا تَظُنّنّ أنّ اللّيْثَ يَبْتَسِمُ

June 20, 2020June 23, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge

‘Fee for a Feline’

"I see people / getting beautiful / day after day / but just not you. Like a kitten / you only mean anything / when you're young /you know that's true."

June 16, 2020June 20, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge

Arabic Translation Challenge: ‘You’ve Aged Like a Cat!’

"I saw everyone getting lovelier, day by day, / and you, becoming less so! / Like a cat that fetches a high price in its youth, / and which, when it ages, goes for cheap."

June 13, 2020June 15, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge

‘No Way But The Way’

"It’s heart-warming to see Sargon’s voice transmogrify in so many ways and across four languages."

June 9, 2020June 13, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge

Arabic Translation Challenge: ‘An Angel Appears’

"The beginning, we choose. / But the end chooses us. / And there is no road but the road."

June 6, 2020June 13, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge, translation

‘Avarice and Fury’

spotted lion, tense/ tired of lockdown/ take the cheetah hunting?/ wait and pine/

June 2, 2020June 6, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge

Arabic Translation Challenge #4: ‘Like a Lion with Spots’

"Abu Nuwas’s answer to The Tiger King."

May 30, 2020June 2, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge, poetry

‘Their Beauty is Absolute’

"’Tis God’s good vines / our world entwines / o’erlapping sunned &  / ashen lines / [yet all be wines.]"

May 26, 2020May 30, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge

Translation Challenge #3: Shades of Black

"العين طامحة واليد سابحة والرجل لافحة والوجه غربيب"

May 23, 2020May 23, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge, translation

‘Heal Me with Disease’

"I'm wrong? Please. / I'm ill? Heal me with disease."

May 19, 2020May 19, 2020 mlynxqualey Arabic Translation Challenge, poetry, translation

Arabic Translation Challenge #2: ‘Do Not Scold Me!’

"Cure me rather with the cause of my ill…"

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