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Rebuilding that Old Tower of Babel, A Talk with Michael Cooperson

Rebuilding that Old Tower of Babel, A Talk with Michael Cooperson

Today, journalist and translator AJ Naddaff launches his series of talks with translators of premodern Arabic literature, which he tongue-in-cheek calls “Untranslateable”: The bi-monthly series will appear here and at his substack, where you can subscribe. By AJ Naddaff According to the Moroccan literary critic Abdelfattah Kilito, the ancients “unconsciously endeavored to make their works…

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Translations of 3 Maghrebi Works Longlisted for 2021 NTA Poetry Awards

Translations of 3 Maghrebi Works Longlisted for 2021 NTA Poetry Awards

Three outstanding Maghrebi collections, in English translation, have made the twelve-book longlist for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry: They are Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine’s Agadir, translated from French by Pierre Joris and Jake Syersak; Samira Negroughe’s The Olive Trees’ Jazz and Other Poems, translated from French by Marilyn Hacker; and the anthology Poetic Justice: An Anthology of…

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May Releases: From Arabic Cult Classics to Dark Fiction

May Releases: From Arabic Cult Classics to Dark Fiction

Three compelling May releases will be available next week:

The Magnificent Conman of Cairo, by Adel Kamel, translated by Waleed Almusharaf, with a foreword by Naguib Mahfouz (May 3 2020, Hoopoe Fiction)

It’s a pleasure to see AUC Press bringing out this 1942 cult classic by Adel Kamel (1916-2005), which was re-issued in Arabic in 2014. Kamel wrote only a few works, and all of them seemingly…

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Brokeback Mountain - Arabic version

Maqamat al-Hariri, Syria (?) 2nd quarter of 13th century.

BNF, Arabe 3929, fol. 122r