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Translation

14 March, 2025 • Jonas Elbousty

The Art of Arabic Translation: An Interview With Roger Allen

Yale scholar of Arabic language and literature Jonas Elbousty talks to one of the most prolific translators of the Arabic novel of the past 50 years.

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17 January, 2025 • Yasmeen Hanoosh, Huda Fakhreddine

Huda Fakhreddine & Yasmeen Hanoosh: Translating Arabic & Gaza

A conversation in which two Arabic to English translators and scholars consider language and Gaza with respect to the west's racism and indifference.

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9 November, 2023 • Ahmad Almallah

Poet Ahmad Almallah

Poet and writer Ahmad Almallah grew up in Bethlehem and presently makes his home in Philadelphia.

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25 September, 2023 • Brahim El Guabli

Disaster and Language—the Disarticulation of Seismic Pain in Tamazight

Brahim El Guabli argues that Morocco's disaster survivors must be able to communicate in their mother tongue.

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12 September, 2023 • Ravi Shankar

Andal—Three Poems Translated by Ravi Shankar

Devotional poems in Tamil by Andal, a poet as beloved in India as Rumi is around the world.

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14 August, 2023 • Brahim El Guabli

Translation and Indigeneity—Amazigh Culture from Treason to Revitalization

Brahim El-Guabli identifies how Amazigh activists have engaged with translation to revitalize their threatened language and culture.

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4 July, 2023 • Joyce Mansour, Emilie Moorhouse

Joyce Mansour

Syrian Jewish, Egyptian and French, Joyce Mansour was a profilic poet and Surrealist.

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4 June, 2023 • Fadi Zaghmout, Rana Asfour

Fiction: An Excerpt from Fadi Zaghmout’s Hope On Earth

In a dystopian world, thanks to AI, people no longer die because they can be upgraded to better and more functional forms.

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29 May, 2023 • Rana Asfour

Cruising the Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

TMR's managing editor, Rana Asfour, checks out one of the world's largest book events looking for literary mana.

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13 March, 2023 • Katie Logan

The Politics of Wishful Thinking: Deena Mohamed’s Shubeik Lubeik

Katie Logan reviews the much-anticipated English version of the Egyptian graphic novel, a tour de force.

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5 March, 2023 • Rana Asfour

The Markaz Review Interview—Hisham Bustani

Rana Asfour interviews fellow Jordanian writer Hisham Bustani about his stories, writing in Arabic and ideas on history and quantum physics.

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15 September, 2022 • Ahmed Farouk

Translating Walter Benjamin on Berlin, a German-Arabic Journey

Ahmed Farouk, the Arabic translator of Günter Grass, W. G. Sebald and Rosa Luxemburg, among others, struggles with Walter Benjamin.

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18 July, 2022 • Ghazi Gheblawi

Libya’s Censored Novelist, Mohammed al-Naas, Revealed

Ghazi Gheblawi talks to young Libyan novelist Mohammed al-Naas, presently working out of Tunisia.

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15 July, 2022 • Youssef Rakha

Poetry as a Form of Madness—Review of a Friendship

Youssef Rahka introduces us to his Egyptian friend Maged Zaher and his seventh volume of poetry, composed in English.

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11 July, 2022 • Ayelet Tsabari

“Disappearance/Muteness”—Tales from a Life in Translation

A writer born into both Arabic and Hebrew linguistic traditions finds herself writing in English but longing for Arabic.

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