Little Mountain

On Translation Elias Khoury, footnotes, Gate of the Sun, Humphrey Davies, Little Mountain, Maia Tabet, White Masks

Footnoting Arabic Literature (in English): Yay or Nay?

June 21, 2010

I recently finished reading Elias Khoury’s Little Mountain (1977), as translated by the able and lovely Maia Tabet.* The translation, published in 1989, is full of footnotes. (It wasn’t until […]

On Translation 'Abd al-Salam al-Ujaili, Arabic, Edward Said, Elias Khoury, Islam, Little Mountain, Naguib Mahfouz, Peter Clark

(New York) Publisher: ‘Arabic After All Is a Controversial Language’

June 20, 2010

I have an unhealthy fascination with translational gossip. So when I was reading Edward Said’s 1989 afterword to Elias Khoury’s Little Mountain—an afterword I don’t like, as it fixates on […]