Author and translator Mona Elnamoury is in Doha, Qatar this week attending the “Translation in and of the World” conference. She shares these observations. By Mona Elnamoury In “ Translation […]
Anthropologist and book-lover Amira Abd El-Khalek went to hear Lebanese author Rasha al-Ameer and her Cairo-based translator Jonathan Wright talk about the novel Yawm al-Din, or Judgement Day, last week at […]
At my recent talk at the downtown AUC, I made passing reference to a “clash of editorial cultures” — with ironic hat-tip to the work of Samuel Huntington and Bernard Lewis halfway […]
On April 25, Lebanese author Rasha al-Ameer and Cairo-based translator Jonathan Wright will appear together in London to talk about al-Ameer’s Judgment Day (2002) and to celebrate its English-language publication (fall 2011). […]
On Tuesday, the shortlists for the 2012 Best Translated Book Awards (BTBA) in fiction and poetry were announced in Rochester, New York, USA. No Arabic fiction had been longlisted, so although […]
Author and teacher Jennifer Sears attended a Queens College symposium on Wednesday, March 28, 2012 entitled “Celebrating the Literature of the Middle East.” She shares her impressions in two separate posts. […]
From the Egypt Independent, by way of a post that began here. Thanks to everyone who contributed their thoughts. I’ll just add that university librarian Robin Dougherty notes, “ALA/LC romanization of the […]
If you’re in Cairo, do stop in at this event: Translating the revolutionary spirit into images, translating those images into words (in Arabic and from there into English). When I […]
Last summer, award-winning translator Katy Derbyshire, the author of “love german books,” shared a manifesto that came out of a translators’ workshop. She called it the “Wolfenbüttel Manifesto – 10 […]
