I hadn’t realized that Hagar Before the Occupation/ Hagar After the Occupation was a bilingual collection. When I requested a copy of the book, written by Iraqi poet Amal al-Jubouri and translated […]
A fairly small crowd — including translators Raphael Cohen, Humphrey Davies, Nariman Youssef, and translator/editor Neil Hewison — came to Cairo’s British Council HQ last September to debate the future of […]
In reading through the rich “Arabic double issue” of the journal Metamorphoses, guest-edited by Mohamed el-Sawi and Hassan & Nahla Khalil, I came across a re-translation of Dhu al-Nun Ayyub’s […]
Maia Tabet’s 2010 translation of Elias Khoury’s White Masks was commended by the 2011 Banipal Prize judges, as was announced earlier this week. We resume our “10 rules” series in […]
From the Arab Collaboration Project: The Artellewa Arab Collaboration Project will bring together six artists and writers from countries of the Arab uprisings in Cairo to collaboratively develop a creative […]
This year’s Saif Ghobash – Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation, announced last night, rewards three exceptional labors of loving translation. Khaled Mattawa’s translation of Adonis: Selected Poems is the […]
The journal In Other Words, supported by the British Centre for Literary Translation, is looking for submissions for their 39th issue: “Translation and the Arab World.” According to the website: […]
Now, I hope I’m not the only one who’s going to be using this acronym for Egypt’s new House of Translation. Also, if you can read the tiny print, I’m […]
The Northern California Book Reviewers Association is looking for (your) eligible titles as it gathers submissions for the 2012 Northern California Book Awards (NCBA), to be handed out next spring. […]
