Translating Picture Books
2022-04-19
Join Ruth Ahmedzai Kemp, Daniel Hahn, Lawrence Schimel, and Helen Wang as they answer questions about being a translator and the translation of picture books.Continue Reading
The Englishing of Hisham Bustani’s ‘Monotonous Chaos’
2022-04-14
Author Hisham Bustani, translator maia tabet, publisher Michael B. Tager, and scholar Pete Moore talk translation, its politics, and more.Continue Reading
April Translation Challenge: Konafa v. Qatayef
2022-04-04
For our most recent Translation Challenge, hosted by Adam Talib, participants tried their hand at translating an 1882 text on taxation by ʿAbd Allāh an-Nadīm, and the results were “cruel and barbarous, blood-curdling and gut-wrenching.” For this month’s translation challenge, we hope the results will be sweeter. Join in theContinue Reading
February Translation Challenge Results: ‘Cruel and Barbarous, Blood-curdling and Gut-wrenching’
2022-03-02
“Literary translators cannot also be experts in the history of taxation so we often have to consult with academic experts when we work on texts like this. You know it already, but I’ll reiterate: collaboration is fundamental.”Continue Reading
Webinar: “Le marché du livre arabe traduit en français depuis 2011” with Richard Jacquemond
2022-01-31
Webinar (in French) with eminent scholar of Arabic literature & Arabic-French translator Richard Jacquemond in conversation with Giedre Sabaseviciute.Continue Reading
Najwan Darwish and the Politics/Poetics of Translating Exhaustion
2022-01-13
“Translators of Palestinian poetry, in addition to untangling the poetics of pain (or in our case, exhaustion), carry the additional burden of making people listen.”Continue Reading
Lit & Found: ‘Western Poets Kidnap Your Poems and Call Them Translations’
2021-12-24
“What makes translations a must? Where does this blind faith in translation come from? Doesn’t translation act also as unconditional access, as surveillance, as an expanding force of the global capitalist market of literature?”Continue Reading
New Frontiers for Arabic Literature & Translation
2021-12-10
This special event taking place as part of the Dubai Expo is for literary translators, publishers, writers and other professionals involved in Arabic literature and translation.Continue Reading
afikra Conversations: Translator Roger Allen
2021-12-07
Join this interview with translator and scholar of Arabic literature Roger Allen as part of the afikra Conversations series.Continue Reading
