Arabic Translation News
- How not to get lost in translation – Budapest Times
Budapest TimesHow not to get lost in translation
Budapest Times
At the same time, however, even those of us living in Hungary tend to take translation for granted. It's something that just happens, usually behind the scenes. The translator's task and its involved difficulties are not usually appreciated by people … - Cairo’s Coptic Museum: the Egyptian Coptic church has been upset by the … – The Guardian
The GuardianCairo's Coptic Museum: the Egyptian Coptic church has been upset by the …
The Guardian
Even before Azazeel won the International Prize for Arabic fiction (or "Arabic Booker") in 2009, copies of the novel were piled high at Cairo's pavement booksellers. Its unusual setting in early Christian, pre-Islamic Egypt fuelled interest, … - Appropriating Palestinian history’s orphans for fiction – The Daily Star
The Daily StarAppropriating Palestinian history's orphans for fiction
The Daily Star
Abulhawa confesses that one of the “enduring aches” of her life is “that my [Arabic] language has slipped away from my tongue.” Bloomsbury Qatar published the Arabic translation of “Mornings in Jenin” earlier this year, a daunting event for a writer … - The Bin Laden Letters: Mockery and Fear – New Yorker (blog)
New Yorker (blog)The Bin Laden Letters: Mockery and Fear
New Yorker (blog)
… letters from Osama bin Laden's house in Abbottabad were released on Thursday, by way of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point; they are a hundred and seventy-five pages in Arabic, and a hundred and ninety-seven in the English translation.
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all 15,744 news articles » - The road more travelled – The Australian
The road more travelled
The Australian
And even when some precious and otherwise lost texts were indeed preserved in an Arabic translation, one can't help wryly reflecting that they would probably not have been lost in the first place had not the Arabs overrun the Byzantine empire.