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Arabic literature in translation

25 October, 2024 • Yasmeen Hanoosh, maia tabet

The Conversation: Arabic-English Translators maia tabet & Yasmeen Hanoosh

Long-time diasporic translators discuss the art of translation, from Arabic to English, identifying intersections and divergences along their paths.

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1 October, 2023 • Hisham Bustani, Thoraya El-Rayyes

“Supplication”—a short story by Hisham Bustani

In Hisham Bustani’s new short story, one man’s religious nightmare brings him face to face with an unlikely public intellectual of his day.

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1 October, 2023 • Amal Ghandour

Why Fawwaz Traboulsi?

Twenty years ago, argues Amal Ghandour, it would have been Edward Said. It’s Traboulsi, his best translator, in 2023.

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2 July, 2023 • Ghadeer Ahmed, Hala Kamal

Abortion Tale: On Our Ground

In Ghadeer Ahmed's latest story, three women with no abortion rights refuse to be victims of exploitation and blackmail.

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8 May, 2023 • Rula Khateeb Jarallah

Kafka in Tangier is a Brooding Homage to Metamorphosis

Rula Khateeb Jarallah reviews the news translation of the Mohammed Said Hjiouij novella in which a man is transformed into a monkey.

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11 April, 2022 • Deborah Kapchan

Zajal — the Darija Poets of Morocco

Author and Darija translator Deborah Kapchan recalls her friendship with two of Morocco's greatest contemporary poets.

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