One-minute Review: Bahaa Abdelmegid’s /Saint Theresa/
Bahaa Abdelmegid first published the slim, 96-page Saint Theresa in 2001. When it finally appeared in English in 2010—apparently it had been on AUC Press’s “to translate” list for a […]
“Saint Theresa”
Chip Rosetti on Translating an Arabic Novel(la) set in America
In a short essay for the blog Three Percent, translator Chip Rosetti explores an issue that had surely been bothering me subconsciously: Translating an Arabic literary text set in the English-speaking world.