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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
2/27/2024 9:02:59 PM
A new translation of a mediaeval Arab cookery book is a welcome addition to a thriving field, writes David Tresilian
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
2/13/2024 8:45:08 PM
A 15th-century Arabic disquisition on the plague has appeared for the first time in English translation, writes David Tresilian
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
11/14/2023 5:47:14 PM
Linguistic science can suggest new words to push back against a one-sided and biased presentation of the Israeli war on Gaza, writes Osama Raslan
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War on Gaza
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War on Gaza
10/20/2023 11:13:29 PM
Instagram has issued an apology after the word "terrorist" appeared in the bios of some Palestinian users, blaming the debacle on "a bug" in its auto-translation feature.
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Business
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Tech
8/29/2023 6:35:45 PM
Google on Tuesday said it was weaving artificial intelligence (AI) deeper into its cloud offerings as it vies for the business of firms keen to capitalize on the technology.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
6/20/2023 9:13:37 PM
A new translation is introducing the work of 16th-century traveller Leo Africanus to new generations of readers, writes David Tresilian
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Egypt
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Society
6/8/2023 8:17:47 PM
Nevine El-Qabbaj, Minister of Social Solidarity, introduced Itqadem, the first Arabic-language digital educational platform in Egypt and the Arab world, designed to assist individuals with autism and disabilities. Advance is the English translation of the platform's name.
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Books
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Reviews
1/26/2023 5:17:43 PM
Afandina (Our Sire) by Mohsen Al-Ghamry, Arwaqa Institution for Studies, Translation and Publishing, Cairo 2021, pp. 368.
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Books
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Reviews
1/19/2023 4:51:05 PM
Booker’s long list in 2021, Andrzej Tichý’s Wretchedness is now published in Arabic. The book is a co-translation by two prestigious writers, Sherine Abdel-Wahab and Dalia Helal, and is featured at Cairo International Book Fair.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
1/3/2023 10:05:12 PM
Late translator Humphrey Davies and Dutch scholar Marcel Kurpershoek have supplied new additions to NYU’s Library of Arabic Literature, underlining the scope of this important series, writes David Tresilian
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Books
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News
1/3/2023 2:50:17 PM
Award-winning writer, translator and critic Mohamed El-Enani passed away on Tuesday at the age of 84, leaving behind more than a hundred books in Arabic and English, translations and creative works.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/18/2022 1:53:00 PM
Mahmoud Mohieldin, the UN high level climate change champion for Egypt, stressed on Monday that the five regional forums and the resulting projects are translating the Egyptian presidency’s vision for the 27th UN Climate Change Summit (COP27) into action.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
9/27/2022 10:50:27 PM
The mediaeval Arabic animal fables of Kalilah wa Dimnah have appeared in a new English-language translation.
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Life & Style
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Health
9/6/2022 8:04:37 PM
A bold investigation probes into the flawed algorithms that fail to reach out with help when suicide is searched on their platforms.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
8/2/2022 9:02:04 PM
The first English translation of the traditional Arab epic of Dhat Al-Himma has recently appeared in an abridged edition.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
5/17/2022 9:17:39 PM
Egyptian critic Mohamed Shoair’s reconstruction of tussles surrounding Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz’s novel Children of the Alley has appeared in English translation.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
4/18/2022 12:08:00 PM
The winner of this year’s Banipal Prize for Arabic Literary Translation was announced in London in January in another bumper year for Arabic literature abroad.
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Books
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Reviews
2/3/2022 9:48:20 PM
More than 30 years after his death, novelist Ehsan Abdel-Kouddous is getting a new recognition, with re-prints, translations and more drama adaptations of his works.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
11/9/2021 6:21:31 PM
A new translation of memoirs by the 18th-century Syrian traveller Hanna Diyab casts fresh light on well-known tales from the Arabian Nights, writes David Tresilian
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Books
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Reviews
8/1/2021 10:07:00 AM
This year’s Cairo International Book Fair had a wide variety of titles that had been coming out more and more during the past decade
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