Farouk Mustafa, 70, Great Literary Translator and Teacher
Yesterday, award-winning translator and teacher Farouk Abdel Wahab Mustafa — who sometimes used the pen name Farouk Abdel Wahab — passed away following a short illness. He was 70.
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On Translating Jurji Zaydan’s ‘Tree of Pearls’
In the Chicago Tribune, I review Samah Selim’s new English translation of Jurji Zaydan’s Tree of Pearls. I also have a sidebar discussion with Selim on translating the novel (nearly) a century […]
‘Judgment Day’: A Conversation About Poetry, the Quran, and the Future of Arabic
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 […]
Literary Highlights of Winter 2012
This list is incomplete, but I didn’t want to get too far into 2012 before launching it. Please help by bringing more events to my attention. JANUARY Jan 9 Sawiris […]
(Arab and Arabic) Literary Highlights of Winter 2012
This list is incomplete, but I didn’t want to get too far into 2012 before launching it. Please help by bringing more events to my attention. JANUARY Jan 9 Sawiris […]
Calls for Submissions: Translated Poetry, Fiction, Memoir
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: […]
A Do-it-yourself Course in Arabic Lit
Of course, my first response was that the scope was a bit on the broad side. Such a project might take a lifetime or two.
Hassan Daoud on the Present, and Possibilities, of Arabic Fiction
Hassan Daoud, the Lebanese novelist and journalist, delivered an engrossing talk in London last week as part of the capital’s ongoing Shubbak festival.
Best 100 Arabic Books (According to the Arab Writers Union): 81-90
This is where you’ll find 1-10 (and an explanation of this project), and here’s 11-20, 21-30, 31-40, 41-50, 51-60, 61-70, and 71-80. Please do help me out with errors and […]
