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I’m also a translator who often leaves quite a lot of Arabic in the text, and I have to come up with ways of explaining that but without being heavy about it.” When asked about the main issues surrounding Arabic literary translation, she noted three. “I think there need to be new ways to fund
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[There’s an association of French literary translators, the ATLF.] Plus, I’m physically far away so I’m not in touch with what’s going on and am not invited to many events, even if they concern books I’ve translated. We don’t have anyone to promote translations either. A writer writes and isn’t held accountable; some of their
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Hard: lack, need. While I personally can’t say whether the last line is true, what I can say is that it would be a loss for the classical Arabic tradition if we didn’t have cheetah poems like this one. Tama`: ambition, desire. 114-115: Like a lion yet with stippled coat Ready to pounce on any
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I am the yellow leaf that fell from the top of the maple tree onto the sidewalk a while ago and disappeared into the pile of the similarly yellow leaves. # Normalcy in Every War By Jan Dost Translated by Mey Dost At the beginning of the war we counted the casualties daily then
The deadline is July 1. Looking for poetry, comics, translations & photography. They ask that those interested in submitting read a recent issue and their guidelines before sending work (via Submittable). As artists in this precarious time, how does the concept of “anxiety” affect and resonate with you? Hi all! Our goal is to
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This year’s novel prize went to Daša Drndić’s EEG, translated by Celia Hawkesworth. Of Time, the jury said, in a prepared statement: Members of this year’s poetry jury were: Nancy Naomi Carlson (poet and translator), Patricia Lockwood (poet), Aditi Machado (poet and translator), Laura Marris (writer and translator), Brandon Shimoda
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(2) ’Tis God’s good vines our world entwines o’erlapping sunned & ashen lines [yet all be wines.] In the latter, last line is optional – I was more excited to use a wine-descriptor (velvety? User Taras Press brought to mind similarities between Imru’ ul-Qays’ steed and that other rockstar of floating and stinging, Muhammad Ali,
Friday Finds: Samah Selim on Translation into and out of Arabic Recently, on Asymptote, Rebecca Ruth Gould talked to translator, writer, and scholar Samah Selim about translating nonfiction, about critical apparatuses, and the Cairo-based translator collective, Turjoman: Of Turjoman, Selim said: We wanted to think about how to change this landscape:
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Beshara Doumani, Brown University’s First Mahmoud Darwish Chair Earlier this week, Brown University announced a new faculty chair in Palestinian Studies, named for Mahmoud Darwish. Doumani also has a literary essay titled “A Song from Haifa” in Seeking Palestine: New Palestinian Writing on Exile and Home, edited by Raja Shehadeh, which opens with
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Jun 23, 2020 | 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM Re-locating the Map: War & Palestinian Literature: After 2000 with Bashir Abu-Manneh Palestinian literature scholar Bashir Abu-Manneh, currently at Kent University, is author of The Palestinian Novel: From 1948 to the Present (2016) and Fiction of the New Statesman, 1913-1939 (2011). Jun 30, 2020 | 02:00
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Do you translate ghirbīb the same way both times? Rachel Schine is a scholar of pre-modern Arabic literature. 1273), a scholar of the Qur’ān who hails, per his name, from Cordoba, and who witnessed his home city’s capture by Ferdinand III of Castile in his lifetime. First, the line by Imru’ ul-Qays: العين طامحة
After four brain surgeries over five months, Radwa returns to Egypt fit and finally able to visit Tahrir Square, which she does on 26 May, incidentally coinciding with her birthday. The novel interleaves the story of Granada during the time of Christopher Columbus — a time of extreme religious persecution — but is also a
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12 Forgave her O God. 15 Keep away from her Those who put the lamb to the wolf’s mouth And the sparrow in the owl’s nest And those who contaminate the spring water. And finally, In my paper ships I have crossed this marsh And arrived at the bank in
Continue reading Lock-in Literature: ‘A Primitive Prayer for Uruk’
Sunday Submissions: Theatre Translator Mentorship The deadline for applications to the Foreign Affairs’ Theatre Translator Mentorship have been extended until June 4: From a 2017 in-person workshop. The program, they write, “is based on our approach to working with translated play texts and our experiences of bringing world drama from ‘page to stage’ over nearly
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Memmi was expelled and sent to a forced labor camp in eastern Tunisia. On serait tenté de dire un écrivain.” That is probably the best way to think about Memmi, as a writer “In Minima Moralia, Theodor Adorno writes that “to those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home.” I really think Albert
Continue reading Tunisian Novelist and Essayist Albert Memmi Dies at 99
More difficult to pick up right now was Aziz Binebine’s Tazmamort récit, a prison memoir that recently appeared in English as Tazmamart, translated by Lulu Norman. Ursula had enjoyed Alessandro Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi, a classic of Italian literature that recounts a 17th century plague in Milan, while MLQ found
And say to those who claim they’re wise: You’ve learned a thing or two by heart But the things that count you’ll never know. Tom Abi Samra’s Twitter account got hacked by an angsty teenager, who did the translation this week: * this thing’s a pharmakon: stop scolding me for it (even though
Friday Finds: Excerpt of ‘The Magnificent Conman of Cairo’ By popular demand, AUC Press / Hoopoe Fiction has posted an excerpt of Waleed Almusharraf’s translation of Adel Kamel’s classic The Magnificent Conman of Cairo: ArabLit will have more on the event of this novel’s publication, including a conversation with one of Kamel’s daughters. It
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All the plays will be subtitled in English. 10 Arabic ‘Nostalgia Plays’ Come to Netflix Netflix is releasing a series of Arabic plays before Eid al-Fitr: With their new releases — plays such as El Eyal Kebret, Al Motzawgoon, Raya w Skeina, and Bye Bye London — Netflix promises to take
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Time was, however, the sole translated work to make the 2020 shortlist. The BTBA is set to announce their winners next week. The poems in Time were sparked by a postcard Adnan received on October 27, 2003 from poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late seventies, and born out of
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