כפאח עבד אלחלים - עיתונאית ומתרגמת ערכה בעבר את אתר העוקץ בערבית, עובדת כעיתונאית ומתרגמת עצמאית. בין היתר, התפרסמו כתבותיה בעיתון אלספיר הלבנוני הנחשב.
Marking ten years since his passing, we share the last lecture delivered by the writer and playwright Salman Natour, who was among the founders of the Maktoob series. He delivered these remarks at the conference ‘Ana Min Alyahud: On Jews, Mizrahiness, and the Arabic Language in Israel’ which was part of a broader project to promote the Arabic language in the academic sphere in Israel.
A conversation between Lebanese writer Elias Khoury and Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, Maktoob’s editor-in-chief, who translated Khoury’s novels into Hebrew. The conversation took place at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Study in France on 12 March 2023; it offers a glimpse into their ongoing dialogue on literature and translation in colonial conflict zones.
In this podcast of the Tel Aviv review, Prof. Yehuda Shenhav Shaharabani, editor in chief of Maktoob books, discusses the life and writing of the great Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury. Shenhav Shaharabani single-handedly translated ten of Khoury’s novels, and was a close personal friend of his.
“A collection of stories now out in Hebrew will give Israelis a rare glimpse into the hearts of their northern neighbors”, Haaretz report featuring our new book “Kan Ya Ma Kan: Folktales from Bilad Alsham”.
“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.
“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.
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.
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 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.
