Arabic translation

Why Fawwaz Traboulsi?

Why Fawwaz Traboulsi?

Twenty years ago, argues Amal Ghandour, it would have been Edward Said. It’s Traboulsi, his best translator, in...

OCTOBER 1, 2023 • By Amal Ghandour
Truth or Dare? Reinterpreting Al-Harīrī’s Arab Rogue

Truth or Dare? Reinterpreting Al-Harīrī’s Arab Rogue

Farah Abdessamad reviews a new English translation of Impostures from Basra-born Al-Hariri that revives the "eloquent rogue" genre...

MARCH 14, 2021 • By Danielle Haque
The Mysteries of Translation in “Stranger Fictions”

The Mysteries of Translation in “Stranger Fictions”

Europe is the center of the world and has the literature to prove it. Or is it? Arabic...

DECEMBER 14, 2020 • By Nat Muller
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