Lit & Found: ‘How Salma Khadra Jayyusi Brought Arabic Literature to the Anglophone World’
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, Dima Ayoub remembers the late Salma Khadra Jayyusi, who died this April at the age of 100.
Dima Ayoub
Lit & Found: Three YouTube Panels on Arabic Literature and Translation
“Three recent panels on Arabic literature and translation have appeared on YouTube.”
Why Translation Is Like Cooking & More from maia tabet
“For me it’s a little bit like cooking; people say, “if you’re following a recipe then you’re not creating anything.” I don’t agree; you are creating something, you’re creative even if you’re following a recipe.”
maia tabet: Translation and Cooking, Context and Failure
“I’m very, very careful; there are ways that we say things in Arabic which if one were to translate them closely or literally would sound to an English ear as being either sectarian, or religious, or ‘backwards,’ if you want to put it that way.”