Last year, 15 literary translators descended on the Banff Literary Translation Center for three weeks of intensive translation, discussions, and individual work sessions. Among them were Kareem James Abu-Zeid, translating […]
Earlier this week, after accepting the Saif Ghobash – Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, Roger Allen gave a masterclass at the Arab British Centre in London. Contributor Amira Abd […]
Ayman Fadel at Balagh Translations has been looking at the translation of popular science books into Arabic; he’s found that there are, among other things, a number of unauthorized Carl Sagan translations making […]
This just came over the email: The American Literary Translators Association is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the 2013 ALTA Travel Fellowship Awards. Each year, […]
Last night, Roger Allen was awarded the Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize for his translation of A Muslim Suicide by Bensalem Himmich. ArabLit’s Amira Abd El-Khalek was there: By Amira Abd […]
A number of deadlines are breathing down your neck, so, go on, you’d better get organized. February Asymptote, special issue on “Africa.” (Feb 15, 2013.) “…we invite submissions of fiction by […]
Two new translational offerings — one from Jadaliyya and one from ArteEast — caught my attention this week. NOVEL EXCERPTS From Ebola ’76 (2012), by Amir Tag el-Sir, trans. Maia Tabet One of Tunisian […]
Syracuse University Press recently released Emily Selove’s translation of al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, Selections from the Art of Party-crashing in Medieval Iraq. She answered a few questions about the project: ArabLit: What brought you to this […]
If you’re afraid, as Burton Pike seems to be, that, “A creeping homogenization is developing in prose fiction, a kind of generic international content and style that transcends national borders,”* well, […]
