On Translation

Well, the DHL guy doesn’t actually have a bag. But he came around yesterday with Shaden Tageldin’s Disarming Words: Empire and the Seductions of Translation in Egypt tucked up under […]

Pierre Joris is a poet, translator, and author of the blog Nomadics, which is where I first encountered him. He teaches poetry & poetics at SUNY-Albany. He has recently published Paul Celan: […]

And so it begins! Our series on translation issues, at Al Masry Al Youm, has kicked off, just in time for International Translation Day. We’ll be looking at a number […]

Egyptian actor, writer, activist, and editor Wiam El-Tamami has won the second annual Harvill Secker prize for young translators. The 27-year-old El-Tamami was recognized at a ceremony tonight in London. […]

Elias Khoury is, with Hanan al-Shaykh, Lebanon’s best-known and most widely acclaimed living novelist. It was Khoury’s 1998 novel, Gate of the Sun, that propelled him to this (co-)position. In the original, باب […]

Last night, author Elias Khoury, translator Humphrey Davies, and filmmaker Yusry Nasrallah spoke about the novel(s) and film باب الشمس (Gate of the Sun) in the context of “Translating Palestine” at the AUC’s downtown campus.

Courrier International has publicized the list of ten finalists for the 2011 PCI, a “prix du meilleur livre étranger.”  One of these books is translated by Edwige Lambert from the Arabic: […]

The “Translating Palestine” talk—featuring Humphrey Davies, Elias Khoury, and filmmaker Yousry Nasrallah—is set for tonight at 6 p.m. at the AUC’s downtown campus. It’s scheduled to be held in the […]

The question is a little forward: Clearly, we need to pay our teachers a decent wage, and give them acceptable working conditions, first. Without teachers, no readers. Without readers, no […]