Books

As what would’ve been Tayeb Salih’s eighty-fifth birthday passes, eminent and pioneering translator Denys Johnson-Davies shares some reflections on his time with Salih when the great Sudanese novelist first ……Read More

Any “listicle” on Gaza risks being an exploitative act, piggybacking on and redirecting attention from the current human catastrophe. But silence isn’t much of a ……Read More

Sudanese novelist Tayib Salih (1929-2009) would have been 85 today. He was born in a village in north Sudan and originally intended to work in agriculture: ……Read More

Let’s set aside whether Arabic(s) is/are really deteriorating — or whether they’re in a process of change – and focus on novelist Iman Humaydan’s other arguments, ……Read More

A three-day conference on translation, called “The Only Thing Worth Globalizing is Dissent: Translation and the Many Languages of Resistance,” is set to be held ……Read More

t is perhaps less of a surprise that the Arabic translation of the best-selling and acclaimed Malayalam novel ആടുജീവിതം, or Goat Days, has been banned in Saudi Arabia and ……Read More