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Language Out of Place: Orientalism, Intelligence and Arabic in Israel

01/10/2020
The new book of Dr.Yonatan Mendel, Maktoob's deputy editor, traces the development of the teaching o
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How a group of translators is trying to reshape the conversation in Israel-Palestine

09/08/2020
"It is a political model to decolonize the colonial relations between the languages... to serve as a
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TRANSLATION AS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD: COPYRIGHT, DIALOGUE, AND NORMALIZATION UNDER COLONIAL CONDITIONS

16/06/2020
In this article, Dr. Huda Abu Much discusses the different approaches in the field of translation fr
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“looking at Arabic and Hebrew as two languages on the same shelf”

28/05/2020
"The Nation" Magazine features the Mizrahi petition against the Nation State Law that aims to lower
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The Hebrew-Speaking Universe of Khoury’s Palestinian Novels

28/04/2020
Check out this article by Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, Maktoob's chief editor who translated several
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The Gate to the Body

20/02/2020
The size of her breasts and their roundness. Her father claims they have reached the size that attra
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Arab Jewish Translational Models in Fin de Siècle Palestine

15/02/2020
Against the backdrop of the intensifying national conflict between Jews and Arabs, a multilingual tr
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Ice Cream in the Car

04/02/2020
A short story by Tamara Naser translated from Arabic.
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Dialogue with Elias Khoury on Literature and Translation

29/01/2020
Raef Zreik, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin and Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani met in cold, snowy Vienna for a dial
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