تجربة في صُنعة المترجِم: من الترجمة الى التعريب

An Experience in the Translator's Craft: From Translation to Arabization

Translation is a struggle to make a foreign text authentically Arabic, not just a transfer of words, by disassembling and reassembling the original so it reads as if written in Arabic, which is the essence of "ta'rib."

Edward Said in Translation – The personal and the academic

A lecture on translating Said and the friendship: "Your language is convoluted—I plan to deconstruct it and reconstruct in Arabic." Twenty years barred from the US, and emails about Tahiyya Karioka, Cyd Charisse, and Oslo as "the peace of the weak."

كتاب لينين “تطوّر الرأسمالية في رُوسيَا”

Lenin's "The Development of Capitalism in Russia"

Lenin's "The Development of Capitalism in Russia" settled the debate with populism, laying the foundations for the Leninist method of applying Marxism to Russian reality, and remains a living model for concrete analysis.

ترجمة النظرية: تجربة شخصية

Translating Theory: A Personal Experience

Translation is temptation and struggle between two languages; its only success is when the text sounds as though it were born in Arabic.

تعريب ادوارد سعيد

Arabizing Edward Said

A promise to Said: "I'll make you speak Arabic" — Arabization as musical rearrangement: not the same piece, but the feelings remain.

Edward Said’s Orientalism revisited: translations and translators

A reading of Said's evolution: from Orientalism to "Imperialism is the export of identity"—warning against self-orientalizing and Occidentalism alike, and admitting his book sometimes relapses into what it critiques.