“Amputated Tongue”: A unique treasure trove of stories
Why is the collection of Palestinian stories translated into Hebrew called “Amputated Tongue”? The Social TV features the anthology of Palestinian prose in Hebrew published by Maktoob.
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Goodbye, Shimon Ballas: A Farewell to an Arab Jew
As an Iraqi Jew, Ballas never abandoned or stifled his native Arabic tongue..His commitment to Arabic and to Arab culture echoes in his literary body of work as he would reiterate time and time again. Prof. Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani writes about the late author Shimon Ballas.
Conversation Between Yuval Evri and Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani on Bi-National Team Translation
Conversation between Dr. Yuval Evri and Prof. Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, Maktoob’s chief editor, on bi-national translation, published at ReOrient magazine (Autumn 2020).
Language Out of Place: Orientalism, Intelligence and Arabic in Israel
The new book of Dr.Yonatan Mendel, Maktoob’s deputy editor, traces the development of the teaching of Arabic in Israel over the past century and considers its underlying rationale.
TRANSLATION AS A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD: COPYRIGHT, DIALOGUE, AND NORMALIZATION UNDER COLONIAL CONDITIONS
In this article, Dr. Huda Abu Much discusses the different approaches in the field of translation from Arabic to Hebrew, and compares between the orientalist approach that was dominant in Israel and the more recent approaches, in particular the one that was developed at Maktoob.
The Political Syntax of the Absentees
How can the absentees possibly write about a space and time from which they are removed? What happens to the first person narrator when they are stripped of their story that is then handed over to that illusive third person presence? Questions raised by Prof. Yehouda Shenhav Shahrabani at this afterward that he wrote to Elias Khoury’s novel “Stella Maris”.