Arabic, between Love and War
edited by Norah Alkharashi & Yasmine Haj
poetry | translation | Arabic
trace: translating [x] series
In Arabic, the word for love حب is one letter shorter than the word for war حرب
Here, translators gather to perform an intimate labour, moving words from Arabic into English, or reversing such direction as language dissolves into cities, landscapes, or portals that open to rubble, or only air.
River in an Ocean
essays on translation
edited by Nuzhat Abbas
foreword by Françoise Vergès
essays | translation | feminism | decolonial
"... a unique anthology that attempts to make sense of personal and political trauma and offers the possibilities of a new approach to translation not based on Eurocentric translation theories. Seen through a feminist, decolonial lens, translation can be understood as un-settlement, as landscape, as memory, as self-discovery and even survival, but, most importantly, as a path that can lead to collective healing."
Nancy Naomi Carlson, World Literature T
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