“Prominent Lebanese writer Elias Khoury’s literary prowess is on display in the Hebrew version of ‘As Though She Were Sleeping,’ about the relationship between a Palestinian man from Jaffa and a girl from Beirut in 1947”. A review by Sheren Falah Saab published at Haaretz newspaper.
A video from our last hands-on workshop featuring some of Maktoob’s translators and staff. The workshop took place at Mishkenot Sha’ananim center in Jerusalem between 13-15.9.2022.
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.
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.
Check out this article by Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, Maktoob’s chief editor who translated several novels of Elias Khoury to Hebrew, to the latest issue of “Banipal” magazine.
The size of her breasts and their roundness. Her father claims they have reached the size that attracts the looks of the truck drivers passing in the morning on the road running next to the village, while her mother says they are hardly noticable behind her bra.
A short story by Palestinian female writer Sheikha Hlewa.
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.
A short story by Tamara Naser translated from Arabic.
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.
The latest issue of JLS: Journal of Levantine Studies was dedicated to Maktoob’s bi-national and bi-lingual translation model. Besides the articles, the issue includes translated literary texts from Arabic.
Haaretz Newspaper covers the publication of “Amputated Tongue”, “the first anthology of its kind of Palestinian prose in Hebrew translation”.
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”.
If only she could find that word in her vocabulary. If only that word would cross the threshold of her mind and heart and make its long way from the depth of her bowels to her lips.
A short story by the Gazan female writer Sama Hasan.
Al-Monitor about Maktoob: “Its goal was to give a voice to Palestinian Arabic society in the hostile climate created by Israel’s right-wing regime that views Arabic as an enemy language”.
JLS- Journal of Levantine Studies issue dedicated to language and translation and spotlighted the relationship between Arabic and Hebrew.
Odeh Bisharat, the translation editor of “The Bridges of Constantine”, responds to Benny Ziffer’s review of the novel.
ReOrient Journal’ interview with Professor Yehouda Shenhav Shahrabani, chief editor of Maktoob, about the politics of translation.
As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, the book illuminated for me some of the images of death that my family members ,carried with them from the Nazi camps. Comments on the novel “Children of the Ghetto – My Name is Adam,” by Elias Khoury.
Questions on language and translation from Arabic to Hebrew following the trial of poet Dareen Tatour. A text by Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani.