Author Hisham Bustani, translator maia tabet, publisher Michael B. Tager, and scholar Pete Moore talk translation, its politics, and more.
Read moreTODAY: The Englishing of Hisham Bustani’s ‘Monotonous Chaos’
Later today, ArabLit hosts author Hisham Bustani, translator maia tabet, publisher Michael B. Tager, and scholar Pete Moore talk translation, its politics, and more.
Read moreTMR Bookgroup: Hisham Bustani’s “The Monotonous Chaos of Existence”
The Markaz Review invites you to participate in their monthly bookgroup conversation, this month featuring writer Hisham Bustani and translator Maia Tabet.
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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.”
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Rula J. Abisaab on Writing a Novel of Faith, Skepticism, and Violence Through a Camera’s Lens
“I treat my novels and poetry as forms of art, in which I explore all that I do not want to articulate in academic arguments and proofs.”
Read moreRula Jurdi Abisaab Wins Khayrallah Prize for Her Novel ‘Camera Obscura’
The Khayrallah Center yesterday announce that the 2020 Khayrallah Prize had been awarded to two artists: novelist Rula Jurdi Abisaab and filmmaker Zayn Alexander.
Read moreFriday Finds: Excerpt from Rula Jurdi’s ‘Camera Obscura’
Near the end of the excerpt, as Nour falls asleep, she thinks about how her own father “in a matter of days, transformed into an entirely different person.”
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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.”
Read moreFootnoting Arabic Literature (in English): Yay or Nay?
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 […]
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