In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an author, and ways of making co-translation equitable.
A Long Walk From Gaza — written by Asmaa Alatawna and co-translated by Caline Nasrallah and Michelle Hartman — is a story about a girl’s life in Gaza and her […]
“Three recent panels on Arabic literature and translation have appeared on YouTube.”
“It is not easy for me to summarize in these lines my emotional relationship — with all its fluctuations — with Raqqa!”
“The most common thing between all of my characters, men and women, is pain. Some of them yield to it and let it shape them, and others are on the lookout for a breakthrough.”
“I have written quite a bit…on the changes that Arab women’s writing undergoes in translation, and how the changes I have observed and analyzed reveal a pattern that upholds problematic stereotypes of Arab women.”
Readers flocked to the first “rules for translation,” from Humphrey Davies and Jonathan Wright.
