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Cultural encounters in translation from Arabic / edited by Said Faiq. - Clevedon, U.K. ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters, 2004. - xii, 138 p. ; 21cm. - Topics in translation ; 26 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-136) and index.

The cultural encounter in translating from Arabic / Said Faiq -- The cultural context of translating Arabic literature / Richard Van Leeuwen -- Exoticism, identity and representation in Western translation from Arabic / Ovidi Carbonell -- Autobiography, modernity and translation / Tetz Rooke -- Integrating Arab culture into Israeli identity through literary translations from Arabic into Hebrew / Hannah Amit-Kochavi -- Translating Islamist discourse / Mike Holt -- On translating oral style in Palestinian folktales / Ibrahim Muhawi -- The Qur'an : limits of translatability / Hussein Abdul-Raof -- Translating native Arabic linguistic terminology / Solomon I. Sara -- Towards an economy and poetics of translation from and into Arabic / Richard Jacquemond.

ISBN: 9781853597435 1853597449 1853597430 1853597457

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Arabic language--Translating.
Translating and interpreting.

LC Class. No.: PJ6170 / .C85 2004

Dewey Class. No.: 418.02 / C968