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.”
On Translation
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?
‘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.”
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.”
A Hundred and One Nights: Part of the ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ of Popular Arabic Tales
Bruce Fudge, Professor of Arabic at the University of Geneva and author of Qur’anic Hermeneutics: al-Tabrisi and the Craft of Commentary (2011), wanted to take a break from Qur’an commentary and “read all the things that religious scholars told you not to read.”
Humphrey Davies Shortlisted for National Translation Award for Al-Shidyaq’s ‘Leg Over Leg’
“This is a book about books, about conventions of writing, reading, bookmaking, cultural creation and crossings, bristling with puns and long digressions about the “oddities of language, including its rare words”—a preoccupation that makes Davies’ translation all the more remarkable as a work of literature and scholarship both.”
Supporting Indonesian Initiative, ‘Banned Literature in Translation’
“InterSastra is raising money to put together a series from banned writers around the world, translated into three languages: Indonesian, English, and Norwegian.”
Cairo’s Fall CTS Lectures: Shakespeare Speaks Colloquial, Superheroes in Translation, ‘Wizard of Earthsea,’ More
If you’re in Cairo, this is where the fun is at.