Writings on Translation, 9781803095103
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Translation: Where cultures meet, differences thrive, and texts migrate.
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    240 pages

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Summary

An exploration of the philosophical dimensions of translation, celebrating it as a practice that preserves and proliferates cultural differences.

Abdessalam Benabdelali is a revered Moroccan philosopher and translator whose work maps an invaluable history of the status of translation in contemporary Arabic thought and language. Bringing together essays from two linked Arabic works by Benabdelali—On Translation and Hosting the Stranger—this volume rep…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781803095103
ISBN-10:1803095105
Author:Abdessalam Benabdelali, Marouane Zakhir, Christian Hawkey, Brahim El Guabli, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Publisher:Seagull Books London Ltd
Imprint:Seagull Books London Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:25 February 2026
Weight:454g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
Series:Elsewhere Texts
About The Author

Abdessalam Benabdelali

Abdessalam Benabdelali is a professor in the Faculty of Letters at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco, and editor-in-chief of Pensée et Critique. His notable works include Political Philosophy of Al-Farabi and The Mythology of Reality, between Connection and Separation.

Marouane Zakhir is associate professor of English at Chouaib Doukkali University in El-Jadida Morocco, where he is also an active member of the Applied Language and Culture Studies Research Lab.

Christian Hawkey is a poet, translator, and educator. He has written several full-length poetry collections, including Sift, as well as the widely celebrated genre-defying book Ventrakl. He lives in Berlin, Germany.

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