Today is publication day for the first-ever ArabLit Quarterly.
On Why I Translated Zakaria Tamer’s Stories from Arabic into Sardinian
"In 2011, upon my return from Syria with a bag full of books by Tamer and others, I began translating some of the stories for fun, to keep up my Arabic, and to ‘test’ my mother tongue and its potential. Can Arabic be translated into an uncodified language like ours?"
