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War Songs longlisted for the National Translation Award
War Songs by ‘Antarah ibn Shaddad, translated by James E. Montgomery with Richard Sieburth, has been longlisted for the 2019 National Translation Award for Poetry.
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An Interview with Julia Bray
Why does translator Julia Bray think Tanūkhī’s tales “outclass the Nights in every way,” and why does she call him “the opposite of imperturbable”? In the first of a two-part discussion on the charming, self-pitying, and erudite Tanūkhī, Bray talks about the author and what his Deliverance Follows Adversity might have meant to him and his contemporaries, as well as the ways in which it’s been passed down, adapted, and understood by later readers.
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The Excellence of the Arabs
The Excellence of the Arabs by Ibn Qutaybah, translated by Sarah Bowen Savant and Peter Webb, is a spirited defense of Arab identity from a time of political unrest. The paperback edition features a new foreword by Jack Weatherford, author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
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In the Media
“Arabic Translation Comes of Age”: An Interview with Al-Ahram Weekly
Al-Ahram Weekly recently published an in-depth interview with LAL editors Philip Kennedy, James Montgomery, Shawkat Toorawa, and Chip Rossetti.
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