Arabic literature in translation

Arabic literature in translation, Impostures, Michael Cooperson

BCLT Research Seminar with Michael Cooperson – French Word Games, “Untranslatable” Arabic, and Global English

May 6, 2022

Al-Hariri’s Impostures is a twelfth-century collection of fifty tales written entirely in rhyme. Because of the rhyme, not to mention the riddles, puns, lipograms, and rare vocabulary, it has routinely […]

Arabic literature in translation, politics of translation, translation

Mini Symposium on Arabic Literature in Translation

October 22, 2021

This mini symposium proposes to investigate modern Arabic literature in translation. The translation of Arabic texts has a complicated history, incorporating publishers’ reticence to publish translations, politics, gender, as well as difficulties of situating Arabic literature within the all-encompassing world literature.