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Maia Tabet
Maia Tabet is an Arabic-English literary translator with a background in editing and journalism. Born in Beirut, Lebanon, in 1956, she was raised in Lebanon, India, and England. She studied philosophy and political science at the American University in Beirut and lives between the United States and Cyprus. Career Tabet is noted for her translation of two novels by Lebanese author Elias Khoury: ''Little Mountain'' and ''White Masks''. The former was the first Khoury novel to appear in English translation (in 1989) while the second was nominated for the 2011 Saif Ghobash–Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation and won the judges' commendation. She has co-translated, with Michael K. Scott, the controversial ''Throwing Sparks'' (''Tarmee bi-Sharar'') by Saudi writer Abdo Khal, a novel which garnered the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF), aka the Arabic Booker Prize. In 2018, her translation of Sinan Antoon's ''Ya Mariam'' was published as ''The Baghadad Euc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American University In Beirut
The American University of Beirut (AUB) ( ar, الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت) is a private, non-sectarian, and independent university chartered in New York with its campus in Beirut, Lebanon. AUB is governed by a private, autonomous board of trustees and offers programs leading to bachelor's, master's, MD, and PhD degrees. AUB has an operating budget of $423 million with an endowment of approximately $768 million. The campus is composed of 64 buildings, including the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC, formerly known as AUH – American University Hospital) (420 beds), four libraries, three museums and seven dormitories. Almost one-fifth of AUB's students attended secondary school or university outside Lebanon before coming to AUB. AUB graduates reside in more than 120 countries worldwide. The language of instruction is English. Degrees awarded at the university are officially registered with the New York Board of Regents. History On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi (Tunisian Arabic: حبيب السالمي) (born 31 January 1951) is a Tunisian novelist and short story writer. Early life He was born in Al-Ala near the historic city of Kairouan. To date, he has published eight novels and two short story collections. Career His books include: * ''Jabal al-'Anz'' (''Goat Mountain''), 1988 * ''Surat Badawi Mayyit'' (''Portrait of a Dead Bedouin''), 1990 * ''Matahat al-Raml'' (''Sand Labyrinth''), 1994 * ''Hufar Dafi'a'' (''Warm Pits''), 1999 * ''Ushaq Bayya'' (''Bayya's Lovers''), 2002 * ''Asrar Abdallah'' (''Abdallah’s Secrets''), 2006 * ''Rawaïh Marie-Claire'' ('' The Scents of Marie-Claire''), 2008 * ''Nisāʾ al-basatīn ( The Women of al-Basatin),'' 2011 * ''Al-ishtīāq ilā al-jāra (Longing for the Woman Next Door),'' 2020 His work has been shortlisted three times for the International Prize for Arabic Fiction, in 2009 (for ''The Scents of Marie-Claire),'' 2012 (for ''The Women of al-Basatin),'' and 2021 (for ''Longin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Chefs
A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardless of age. Typically, women inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, SRY-gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. A fully developed woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. Women have significantly less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Througho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers From Beirut
A writer is a person who uses written words in different writing styles and techniques to communicate ideas. Writers produce different forms of literary art and creative writing such as novels, short stories, books, poetry, travelogues, plays, screenplays, teleplays, songs, and essays as well as other reports and news articles that may be of interest to the general public. Writers' texts are published across a wide range of media. Skilled writers who are able to use language to express ideas well, often contribute significantly to the cultural content of a society. The term "writer" is also used elsewhere in the arts and music, such as songwriter or a screenwriter, but also a stand-alone "writer" typically refers to the creation of written language. Some writers work from an oral tradition. Writers can produce material across a number of genres, fictional or non-fictional. Other writers use multiple media such as graphics or illustration to enhance the communication of thei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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Arabic Literature
Arabic literature ( ar, الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: ''al-Adab al-‘Arabī'') is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language. The Arabic word used for literature is '' Adab'', which is derived from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment. Arabic literature emerged in the 5th century with only fragments of the written language appearing before then. The Qur'an, widely regarded as the finest piece of literature in the Arabic language, would have the greatest lasting effect on Arab culture and its literature. Arabic literature flourished during the Islamic Golden Age, but has remained vibrant to the present day, with poets and prose-writers across the Arab world, as well as in the Arab diaspora, achieving increasing success. History ''Jahili'' is the literature of the pre-Islamic period referred to as ''al-Jahiliyyah'', or "the time of ignorance". In pre-Islamic Arabia, markets such ... [...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] |
Words Without Borders
''Words Without Borders'' (''WWB'') is an international magazine open to international exchange through translation, publication, and promotion of the world's best writing and authors who are not easily accessible to English-speaking readers. The first issue appeared in July–August 2003. Translation and knowledge ''Words Without Borders'' promotes cultural understanding through the translation, publication, and promotion of the finest contemporary international literature. It publishes a monthly magazine of literature in translation and organizes special events that connect foreign writers to the public; it also develops materials for high school and college teachers and provides an online resource center for contemporary global writing. Words without Borders is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts and the Lannan Foundation, among others. Words without Borders was founded by Alane Salierno Mason, translator of Elio Vittorini, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goethe Institut
The Goethe-Institut (, GI, en, Goethe Institute) is a non-profit German cultural association operational worldwide with 159 institutes, promoting the study of the German language abroad and encouraging international cultural exchange and relations. Around 246,000 people take part in these German courses per year. The Goethe-Institut fosters knowledge about Germany by providing information on German culture, society and politics. This includes the exchange of films, music, theatre, and literature. Goethe cultural societies, reading rooms, and examination and language centres have played a role in the cultural and educational policies of Germany for more than 60 years. It is named after German poet and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Goethe-Institut e.V. is autonomous and politically independent. Partners of the institute and its centres are public and private cultural institutions, the German federal states, local authorities and the world of commerce. Much of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magazine Of Modern Arab Literature
A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combination of the three. Definition In the technical sense a '' journal'' has continuous pagination throughout a volume. Thus ''Business Week'', which starts each issue anew with page one, is a magazine, but the ''Journal of Business Communication'', which continues the same sequence of pagination throughout the coterminous year, is a journal. Some professional or trade publications are also peer-reviewed, for example the '' Journal of Accountancy''. Non-peer-reviewed academic or professional publications are generally ''professional magazines''. That a publication calls itself a ''journal'' does not make it a journal in the technical sense; '' The Wall Street Journal'' is actually a newspaper. Etymology The word "magazine" derives from Arabic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Taj Al-Sir
Amir Tag Elsir (, born 1960), also written Amir Taj al-Sir, is a Sudanese medical doctor and novelist, writing in Arabic. He has published more than 20 works of poetry, biography and novels, some of these translated into English or other languages. His novels deal with contemporary social issues, like poverty, the lives of refugees or diseases, such as Ebola. Life and literary career Tag Elsir was born in northern Sudan in 1960 and graduated from Tanta University in Egypt. He lives and works as a medical doctor in Doha, Qatar. His first novel ''Karmakul'' came out in 1988. In 2015, he won the Katara Prize for Arabic Novel for his story of love and crime, entitled ''366.'' In addition, several of his other novels were shortlisted for the prestigious International Prize for Arabic Fiction. Commenting on the novel ''Telepathy'', literary critic M.A. Orthofer said, Tag Elsir creates the fiction of "a successful Sudanese writer, who finds that his most recent novel, called ''Hung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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