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Max Weiss (translator)
Max Weiss is an American scholar and translator, specialising in the culture and history of the Middle East. He studied biology and history at University of California, Berkeley before moving on to Stanford University, where he completed his PhD in modern Middle Eastern history in 2007. He joined the faculty of Princeton University in 2010. Weiss is the author of ''In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism and the Making of Modern Lebanon'' (2010). He is also a noted translator of contemporary Arabic literature into English. His translation of Abbas Beydoun's novel ''Blood Test'' won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award. Weiss is also a two-time fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. Books As author * ''In the Shadow of Sectarianism: Law, Shi'ism and the Making of Modern Lebanon'' (2010) As translator * ''B as in Beirut'' by Iman Humaydan Younes * ''Blood Test'' by Abbas Beydoun * ''A Tunisian Tale'' by Hassouna Mosbahi * ''The Silence and the Roar'' by Nihad S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middle East
The Middle East ( ar, الشرق الأوسط, ISO 233: ) is a geopolitical region commonly encompassing Arabian Peninsula, Arabia (including the Arabian Peninsula and Bahrain), Anatolia, Asia Minor (Asian part of Turkey except Hatay Province), East Thrace (European part of Turkey), Egypt, Iran, the Levant (including Syria (region), Ash-Shām and Cyprus), Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), and the Socotra Governorate, Socotra Archipelago (a part of Yemen). The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early 20th century. The term "Middle East" has led to some confusion over its changing definitions, and has been viewed by some to be discriminatory or too Eurocentrism, Eurocentric. The region includes the vast majority of the territories included in the closely associated definition of Western Asia (including Iran), but without the South Caucasus, and additionally includes all of Egypt (not just the Sina ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nihad Sirees
Nihad Sirees (; born 1950, Aleppo, Syria) is a Syrian writer of contemporary fiction and screenwriter. He was born in the northern Syrian metropolis Aleppo and studied engineering in Bulgaria. Sirees emerged as a fiction writer in the 1980s, and has written novels, plays, and scripts for TV dramas. Among his notable works are the historical novel ''The North Winds'' and the TV series ''The Silk Market'', which has been translated for screening into English, Persian and German. He also wrote a TV series about the Lebanese writer Kahlil Gibran. His 2004 novel ''The Silence and the Roar'' was banned in Syria, and has been translated into German, French and English. His second novel ''States of Passion'', translated by Max Weiss, was published by Pushkin Press in 2018. Most of his writings are inspired by Aleppo, its history and the social relations that govern its inhabitants, and he used the Aleppo dialect of Syrian Arabic in Syrian drama. In the wake of the Arab Spring, Sirees was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Translators
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Princeton University Faculty
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. It is one of the highest-ranked universities in the world. The institution moved to Newark, New Jersey, Newark in 1747, and then to the current site nine years later. It officially became a university in 1896 and was subsequently renamed Princeton University. It is a member of the Ivy League. The university is governed by the Trustees of Princeton University and has an endowment of $37.7 billion, the largest List of colleges and universities in the United States by endowment, endowment per student in the United States. Princeton provides undergraduate education, undergraduate and graduate education, graduate in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Arabic-English Translators
The following is a list of translators primarily translating literary works in the Arabic language into English editions that have been published in print. The leading prizes in this field of translation are the Banipal Prize and the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award. A * Farouk Abdel Wahab * Leila Abouzeid * Kareem James Abu-Zeid *Sinan Antoon * A. J. Arberry * Albakry Mohammed *Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot B *Adil Babikir * Aida Bamia *Joseph Bell *Marilyn Booth *Keith Bosley * Angele Botros Samaan * Issa J. Boullata * Sargon Boulus *Paul Bowles * Leon Carl Brown *Richard Francis Burton C *Anthony Calderbank * Yigal Carmon *Catherine Cobham *Thomas Cleary * Elliot Colla *Miriam Cooke * Michael Cooperson * Robyn Creswell D *Humphrey T. Davies * N. J. Dawood E *Abba Eban F * Nicole Fares *Ahmed Fathy * Elizabeth Fernea * Bassam Frangieh G * Ferial Ghazoul *Sayed Gouda * William Granara * William Alexander Greenhill H *Marilyn Hacker * Hala Halim * Stuart A. Hancox * Nay Han ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawwaz Haddad
Fawwaz Haddad (Arabic: فواز حدّاد) (born 1947) is a Syrian novelist. He was born in Damascus and studied law at Damascus University. He held several jobs before taking up writing full-time. Haddad published his first novel ''Mosaic, Damascus '39'' in 1991. Since then he has written several more, including ''A Fleeting Scene'', ''The Unfaithful Translator'', ''A Solo Performance on Piano'' and ''God's Soldiers''. ''The Unfaithful Translator'' was nominated for the 2009 Arabic Booker Prize while ''God's Soldiers'' was selected for the longlist of the 2011 prize, although it failed to make it on to the eventual shortlist. Excerpts of Haddad's work have been translated to English and published in Banipal magazine. The Princeton scholar and translator Max Weiss Miksa (Max) Weisz (21 July 1857 – 14 March 1927) was an Austrian chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary. Weiss was born in Sereď. Moving to Vienna, he studied mathematics and physics at the university, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dunya Mikhail
Dunya Mikhail (born 1965 in Baghdad, Iraq) is an Iraqi-American poet based in the United States. Life She was born and raised in Iraq to a Chaldean-Catholic family. She graduated with a BA from the University of Baghdad. Mikhail worked as a journalist, as editor of the literary section, and as a translator for '' The Baghdad Observer''. As a liberal writer during the time of dictatorship and censorship, Mikhail fled Iraq in 1995, going first to Jordan and then eventually to the United States, where she became a U.S. citizen, got married, and raised a daughter. She studied Near Eastern Studies and received her MA from Wayne State University. In 2001, she was awarded the United Nations Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. Mikhail speaks and writes in Arabic and English. Her works include the poetry collection ''The War Works Hard'', which won PEN's Translation Fund award, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and was named one of the best books of 2005 by the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassouna Mosbahi
Hassouna Mosbahi ( ar, حسونة المصباحي) (born 1950 in Dhehibat, Kairouan) is a Tunisian author, literary critic and freelance journalist. Biography Hassouna Mosbahi was born in 1950 in the village of Dhehibat in the governorate of Kairouan, Tunisia, and studied French at the Tunis University. He suffered persecution at the hands of the government of Habib Bourghiba and so sought refuge in Europe, moving to Munich, Germany in 1985. He returned to Tunisia in 2004. He has published four collections of short stories and six novels and has been translated into German and English. He has also published dozens of translations of French literary works into Arabic. His work has won several literary prizes, including the Munich Fiction Prize (for the German translation of his novel ''Tarshish Hallucination),'' and the 2016 Mohamed Zefzef Prize for Fiction (for his novel ''A Tunisian Tale''). In 2010 he refused a "Judges' Choice" prize from the Prix Littéraires COMAR D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant university and the founding campus of the University of California system. Its fourteen colleges and schools offer over 350 degree programs and enroll some 31,800 undergraduate and 13,200 graduate students. Berkeley ranks among the world's top universities. A founding member of the Association of American Universities, Berkeley hosts many leading research institutes dedicated to science, engineering, and mathematics. The university founded and maintains close relationships with three national laboratories at Berkeley, Livermore and Los Alamos, and has played a prominent role in many scientific advances, from the Manhattan Project and the discovery of 16 chemical elements to breakthroughs in computer science and genomics. Berkeley is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abbas Beydoun
Abbas Beydoun (born 1945) is a Lebanese poet, novelist and journalist. He was born in the village of Sur near Tyre in southern Lebanon. His father was a teacher. Beydoun studied at the Lebanese University in Beirut and the Sorbonne in Paris. He was involved in left-wing politics and spent time in jail as a young man in 1968 and 1982. Since becoming a full-time writer, he has published 18 volumes of poetry, among them ''Hujurat'', ''Li Mareedin Huwa al-Amal'', and ''Ashiqa'a Nadamuna''. His work has been translated into all the major European languages, and English translations of his poetry have appeared in several issues of '' Banipal'' magazine. Beydoun has mentioned Pierre Jean Jouve and Yannis Ritsos among his key poetic influences. He also published a novel called ''Tahlil damm'' in 2002. The English translation by Max Weiss, titled ''Blood Test'', won the Arkansas Arabic Translation Award in 2008. Since 1997, Beydoun has been cultural editor of the Beiruti newspaper '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iman Humaydan Younes
Iman Humaydan (born 1956) is a Lebanese writer, researcher and creative writing professor at Saint-Denis Paris 8 University in France. She was born in the Mount Lebanon governorate in 1956. She studied sociology and Anthropology at the American University in Beirut. Between 2002 and 2006, she conducted a profound research on the Families of the Disappeared persons during the Lebanese civil war. Her research was titled " Neither Here Nor There.. Families of the Disappeared in Lebanon", and was the first in kind in the Arab World. She has published four novels: * ''B as in Beirut'' (translated by Max Weiss Miksa (Max) Weisz (21 July 1857 – 14 March 1927) was an Austrian chess player born in the Kingdom of Hungary. Weiss was born in Sereď. Moving to Vienna, he studied mathematics and physics at the university, and later taught those subjects. Wei ...) * ''Wild Mulberries'' (translated by Michelle Hartman) * ''Other Lives'' (translated by Michelle Hartman, 2014 ) * “''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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