Cultural Encounters in Translation from Arabic

Said Faiq is Associate Professor of Translation Studies at the American University of Sharjah, where he is Chair of the Department of English & Translation Studies and Director of the Graduate program in Translation & Interpreting.  Prior to this, he taught at the School of Languages, Salford University, UK.  He has published widely on (Arabic) translation and cultural studies.

• Preface Notes on Contributors1 Said Faiq: The Cultural Encounter in Translating from Arabic2 Richard van Leeuwen: The Cultural Context of Translating Arabic Literature3 Ovidi Carbonell: Exoticism, Identity and Representation in Western Translation from Arabic4 Tetz Rooke: Autobiography, Modernity and Translation5 Hannah Amit-Kochavi: Integrating Arab Culture into Israeli Identity through Literary Translations from Arabic into Hebrew6 Mike Holt: Translating Islamist Discourse7 Ibrahim Muhawi: On Translating Oral Style in Palestinian Folktales8 Hussein Abdul-Raof: The Qur’an: Limits of Translatability9 Solomon I. Sara: Translating Native Arabic Linguistic Terminology10 Richard Jacquemond. Translated from French by Philip Tomlinson: Towards an Economy and Poetics of Translation from and into ArabicBibliography Index