Arabic Translation: Theories & Practices

(4 Credits)

This course interrogates the relationship between concepts produced in Translation Studies and scholarship on translation in the Arab context. It dwells on key junctures in the history of translation in the Arab world, primarily the Nahda (or revival/rebirth) through texts by some of its signal figures, as well as recent scholarship on the subject. Workshop sessions allow students to undertake their own translation projects in relation to the theoretical texts assigned.