By Jennifer Sears and Katrina Weber Ashour The recent panel discussion “Music, Literature and Comparative Composition: The Task of Translation,” sponsored by Columbia University’s Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, raised […]
For a few brief moments, my husband and I considered registering our one-year-old’s second name as “Ta7rir.” The 7 is the most popular way to represent the breathier, harder Arabic […]
From the mailbag: The third annual Translation Conference, organized by the Translation and Interpreting Institute, Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing, and the British Council, is set to [begin] on April 29, […]
Egyptian novelist and filmmaker Ahmed Khalifa hasn’t started yet. But, he says, “Hopefully, the new reviews will start appearing this month.” Khalifa, whose second novel, The Ma3di Killer, was recently […]
If there is one word that most alienates English-language readers of Arabic literature it’s neither masha’allah nor insha’allah — which are perhaps mostly objects of curiosity — nor jihad nor madrassa (except […]
On February 16, New York’s Columbia University will host the world premiere of Mohammed Fairouz‘s “Symphony #3: Poems and Prayers,” set to open at the university’s Miller Theatre at 8 […]
By Mona Elnamoury In a most fascinating lecture on globalization and translation on Sunday evening, Prof. Michael Cronin spoke about translation, not traditionally as a bridge, but as a river that runs […]
A number of recent calls-for-submission on New Pages, ALTA, and elsewhere have specifically mentioned a need for (your) translations. Drunken Boat, for instance, is looking for your translations of “Hypnopoeia, Hypnogeography, Hypnoecology: […]
I have recently been reading Hagar Before the Occupation / Hagar After the Occupation, by Amal al-Jubouri, trans. Rebecca Gayle Howell (with Husam Qaisi). Howell explains in the book’s preface […]
