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 Dr. Yuval Evri and Prof. Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, Maktoob’s chief editor, on bi-national translation, published at ReOrient magazine (Autumn 2020).
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.
Against the backdrop of the intensifying national conflict between Jews and Arabs, a multilingual translation project emerged in Palestine at the turn of the twentieth century. An article by Dr. Yuval Evri.
Raef Zreik, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin and Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani met in cold, snowy Vienna for a dialogue with Elias Khoury, the renowned Lebanese writer, professor of literature, editor, and essayist. Read the complete dialogue here.
JLS- Journal of Levantine Studies issue dedicated to language and translation and spotlighted the relationship between Arabic and Hebrew.