Michael Cooperson: Learning Arabic Backwards
Michael Cooperson will give an online lecture on ‘Learning Arabic Backwards: Was it Absolutely Terrifying?’ at Harvard’s CMES, drawing on his experience of translating al-Hariri’s “Maqamat.”
Michael Cooperson will give an online lecture on ‘Learning Arabic Backwards: Was it Absolutely Terrifying?’ at Harvard’s CMES, drawing on his experience of translating al-Hariri’s “Maqamat.”
In this talk in the “The Middle East in Cambridge Series”, Michael Cooperson will discuss his translation of al-Hariri’s “Impostures”.
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