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Al Shorouk, Penguin Group to launch joint publishing project
Books
November 21, 2010
Al Shorouk, Penguin Group to launch joint publishing project
Egyptian publishing house Dar Al Shorouk together with UK publisher the Penguin Group will launch a major joint project on…
Richard Jacquemond: On the lack and loss in translation
Books
November 5, 2010
Richard Jacquemond: On the lack and loss in translation
French scholar and renowned translator of Arabic literature Richard Jaquemond spoke on Wednesday night at the American University in Cairo…
Joseph Massad at AUC: Translating Islam
Archaeology
September 28, 2010
Joseph Massad at AUC: Translating Islam
On Monday night AUC’s Oriental Hall was packed with scholars, students and journalists for a lecture by prominent academic Joseph…
Translating Orientalism
Books
September 26, 2010
Translating Orientalism
Six years after his death, scholar Edward Said is still remembered for his influential theories on imagery construction between the…
Ahdaf Soueif: Reading Arabic into the English
Books
April 29, 2010
Ahdaf Soueif: Reading Arabic into the English
Novelist and essayist Ahdaf Soueif is commonly known as the Egyptian author who writes in English. Curiosities about being a…
Crossing the language divide
Books
February 11, 2010
Crossing the language divide
What first drew him to the translation profession, says Humphrey Davies, was the fact that it was “a way of…