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."

انطونيو غرامشي – ملاحظات عن التاريخ الايطالي – فترة النهضة القومية

Antonio Gramsci - Notes on Italian History - The National Renaissance Period

What matters in Gramsci goes beyond Italy: state, hegemony, and revolutions that cannot be read through class alone, yet make no sense without it.

الأمل لا يعني التغاضي عن الانتكاسات مقابلة مع فواز طرابلسي

Hope Does Not Mean Overlooking Setbacks: An Interview with Fawwaz Traboulsi

Bidayat

Marxism gave him the confidence to write about everything — and hope does not mean overlooking setbacks.

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.

نيرودا بول روبصن

Neruda - Paul Robeson

A translation of Neruda on Paul Robeson: his voice separated from silence as light from darkness—singing for all peoples, triumphant over the silence of rivers that lost their voice from carrying too much blood.

اعجب المخلوقات – ناظم حكمت

The Most Wondrous of Creatures - Nazim Hikmet

A translation of Nazim Hikmet: "Brother," you are like a sheep rushing to the flock when the executioner raises his staff—stranger than a fish that lives in the sea and does not know the sea.

لمس – اكتافيو باث

Touch - Octavio Paz

A translation of Octavio Paz: hands invent another body within the body, and the woman is "beautiful like a revolution of the poor"—the body is the other face of being, time, and life.

تمرين في الترجمة

An Exercise in Translation

As-Safir

How are globalization's terms like transparency and transitional justice translated in the Arab world to become a cover for plundering wealth and exempting ruling families from accountability?

Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq: An Arab Traveler in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Beyond

Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq, the rebellious Nahda thinker, bridged the gap between East and West, advocating for freedom, equality, and women's liberation, facing censorship and marginalization.

بريشت – اسئلة العامل

Brecht - Questions from a Worker

Translation of Brecht: Who built Thebes? Books list kings. Caesar defeated the Gauls — didn't he have a cook? Every decade a great man. Who paid the bill?

جوناثن سويفت – اقتراح متواضع

Jonathan Swift - A Modest Proposal

Translation: Swift proposes selling Ireland's poor children as food for the rich — the most famous dark satire in literature, and the sharpest critique of colonialism.

تجربة في صُنعة المترجِم: منالماغوط إلى لينين الذي يعرفالعربية!

An Experience in the Translator's Craft: From al-Maghut to Lenin Who Knows Arabic!

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

From al-Maghout to Lenin who “knows Arabic”: translation is an obsession whose danger lies in small details.

تجربة في صُنعة المترجِم: مستويات“الخيانة” بين المبنى والمعنى

An Experience in the Translator's Craft: Levels of "Betrayal" Between Form and Meaning

Al-Quds Al-Arabi

The test of translation is simple and severe: the text must read as if it were written in Arabic from the start. Everything else is excuse.

رجلٌ ظننته شجرة

A Man I Thought Was a Tree

Bruno is not the one standing on his head — our world is upside down. Flip him over so he can walk: "The man who walks opens a new horizon with every step."

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.

مقابلة مع أسماء عزايزة

Interview with Asma Azaizeh

Bidayat

When art enters history, the false certainties crack: maps are dismantled, wars are read through paintings, and revolutions are seen from inside their contradictions.

حوار العربي الجديد

Al-Araby al-Jadeed Interview

Al-Araby al-Jadeed

This diversity is not dispersion: from history to popular culture, one thread runs through it all, writing for the widest possible readership and refashioning experience.

في تكريم اتيل عدنان

In Honor of Etel Adnan

She captures Duke Ellington in five words: "He turns noise into velvet" — and tells the poets: "Change the world or go home!"

AHDR: a critique

300 books translated per year is an unreliable figure—and culture is used to mask neoliberal agendas: unemployment cannot be solved by translation but by productive economies. The Alexandria Charter is a shopping list, not a roadmap.

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.

Guide des révolutionnaires et des rebelles arabes

A Guide to Arab Revolutionaries and Rebels

A guide, not a museum: portraits of Arab revolutionaries from Ben Barka to Mahmoud Mohamed Taha—and the lesson that defeated revolutions change the victor and failed ones accomplish more than revolutionaries imagine.

جون برجر

John Berger

In an elegy for John Berger, the author recalls a friendship and a teacher who changed his view of the world, teaching the eye to read the beautiful and the hidden, and how to struggle against 'the great defeat of the world' by drawing inspiration from Palestinian steadfastness.