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Maktoob - Arabic literature In Hebrew

أحجية إدموند عمران المالح The Riddle of Edmond Amran El Maleh
Mohammed Said Hjiouij

In his novel, the Moroccan writer Mohammed Said Hjiouij builds an alternative biography of he Jewish-Moroccan writer Edm...

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طه Taha
Amer Hlehel

Taha, by Amer Hlehel, is a one-person show portraying the life of the Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali. The play was s...

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المسخوط The Bureau of the Cursed
Muhammad Ali Taha

Muhammad Ali Taha is one of the leading Palestinian writers living in Israel today, and his unique voice has also attain...

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We aspire to rid Hebrew-language literature of its orientalist conceptions of both Arabs and Arab countries.

By implementing mutual sovereignty in translation, Maktoob seeks to combat the segregation

of Jews and Palestinians, and to dismantle the colonial power structure

between the two languages.

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Maktoob: Introducing Palestinian voices to Israelis

"Jewish and Palestinian translators work together at Maktoob, a series of books bringing Arabic-language and Palestinian literature to Hebrew-language readers – and telling them things that most Israelis aren’t willing to hear", Haaretz English featuring Maktoob project and senior staff.

Reading in Hebrew About Love in the Time of the Nakba

"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.

Palestinian Literature in Hebrew Translation: Between cultural appropriation and resistence

In this article, Dr.Aida Fahmawi Watad focuses on the complex cultural and political dynamics of translation of Palestinian literature into Hebrew, and the unique model of translation praxis developed by the Maktoob project.

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