The second novel by Omani author Jokhar Alharthi, Sayyidat al-Qamar, is translated into English by Marilyn Booth as Celestial Bodies. Which are what? The men around whom the world revolves? That would be the answer one might expect from an…
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Celestial Bodies
Tagged with: Arabic, books, Celestial Bodies, Jokha Alharthi, Man Booker International Prize, Marilyn Booth, Oman, Sandstone Press, Translation
Posted in books, literature, Man Booker 2013, translation
Posted in books, literature, Man Booker 2013, translation
The Apartment in Bab El-Louk
This book will take you minutes to whip through, but you won’t forget it in a hurry. The doors of the cover open onto a very simple story about a city-centre apartment and the person who lives in it, the…
Tagged with: Ahmad Nady, Arabic, books, Darf Publishers, Donia Maher, Egypt, Ganzeer, Kahlil Award, The Apartment in Bab El-Louk, Translation
Posted in books, Illustration, translation
Posted in books, Illustration, translation
The Dove’s Necklace
Last weekend marked the end of Eid al-Adha, when millions of pilgrims gathered in Mecca. In this story, one man makes his way into the Kaaba itself… This story starts with the city: not the pilgrims, but the women and…
Tagged with: Adam Talib, Arabic, International Prize for Arabic Fiction, Katharine Halls, Mecca, Raja Alem, Saudi Arabia, The Dove's Necklace, Translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
Posted in books, gender, translation
The Queue
Every day, the queue gets longer. More and more people need documents: proof of citizenship, exemptions, permissions, documents with forms to get the other documents for the other forms. So they come to the Gate, and wait. They wait in…
Tagged with: Arabic, Basma Abdel Aziz, books, Egypt, Elisabeth Jaquette, The Queue, Translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
Posted in books, literature, translation
Rumi’s greatest love
Today’s a day to celebrate all kinds of love, and here are some poems for it that you’ve probably never seen. Rumi’s Persian work is very well known and loved in the English-speaking world, but he also wrote in Arabic.…
Tagged with: Anthony A. Lee, Arabic, Love is my Savior, Michigan State University Press, Nesreen Akharkhavari, Persian, Poetry, Rumi, Translation, Valentine's Day
Posted in books, faith, poetry, translation
Posted in books, faith, poetry, translation
International Translation Day 2015: Translating for Refugees
Happy International Translation Day! This year’s theme is The changing face of translation and interpreting, celebrating the people “who make it possible for the world to be a global village”. Right now, the need is very concrete: translating and interpreting for…
Tagged with: Arabic, Dari, Farsi, Finnish, Greek, International Translation Day, Pashto, Red Cross, Refugee Phrasebook, Translation, Translators Without Borders
Posted in international, translation
Posted in international, translation
Don’t translate this!
When should you say no to translation? Sometimes saying yes can be just too dangerous – the translator is drawn into an ethical dilemma or puts their life at risk. For a fascinating discussion of this issue with experts in…
Tagged with: Alice Guthrie, Anna Politkovskaya, Arabic, Arch Tait, Literary Translation, London Book Fair, NoPeanuts, Rebranding the Levant, Russian, Tenzin Dickie, Tibetan, Translation, TreasuryOfLives
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Posted in literature
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