On Translation

Even in the e-book world, book covers are still an important business. A crummy design signals, to the reader, a crummy book. And an incredible design can cut through a […]

Literary translator Maia Tabet writes of discovering a small, free inspiration for translators. By Maia Tabet I have just discovered and finished reading a wonderful little volume entitled Translation in […]

Journalist Maurice Chammah reflects on Egyptian novelist Bahaa Taher’s reflection on the performance and politics of simultaneous translation. By Maurice Chammah Press conferences are a constant feature of politics and […]

Poet and author Mishka Mojabber Mourani shares the linguistic journey that brought her to her most recent collection, Alone Together (2012), with Aida Yacoub Haddad. By Mishka Mojabber Mourani She was a […]

Hala Salah Eldin Hussein has an affinity for under-loved literature. She has, for thirty-three issues now, translated contemporary English-language stories into Arabic for the Albawtaka Review. She talked with ArabLit about that […]

While, yes, I will talk about this blog — and specifically about what I’ve learned about the readers and “business” of Arabic literary translation — I also have been talking to […]

“All my life I wanted to write but I couldn’t. I studied French literature, and my dream was to write what’s on my heart, but I couldn’t. I didn’t start […]

The “10 rules” series resumes with award-winning translator Dr. Samah Selim. Eleven Rules 1. Think about register. Every essay, novel or story projects a particular and unique language register. A […]

ArabLit: What I enjoyed throughout A Tunisian Tale was the teasing humor & the pacing (even when I was being teasingly manipulated). But the most beautiful craft, I thought, was […]