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Al Shorouk, Penguin Group to launch joint publishing project
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Crossing the language divide

What first drew him to the translation profession, says Humphrey Davies, was the fact that it was “a way of…
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