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Maktoob Blog

The Hebrew-Speaking Universe of Khoury’s Palestinian Novels

28/04/2020
Check out this article by Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, Maktoob's chief editor who translated several
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The Gate to the Body

20/02/2020
The size of her breasts and their roundness. Her father claims they have reached the size that attra
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Arab Jewish Translational Models in Fin de Siècle Palestine

15/02/2020
Against the backdrop of the intensifying national conflict between Jews and Arabs, a multilingual tr
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Ice Cream in the Car

04/02/2020
A short story by Tamara Naser translated from Arabic.
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Dialogue with Elias Khoury on Literature and Translation

29/01/2020
Raef Zreik, Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin and Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani met in cold, snowy Vienna for a dial
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Maktoob: Translation and the Colonial Encounter

27/01/2020
The latest issue of JLS: Journal of Levantine Studies was dedicated to Maktoob's bi-national and bi-
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“The book’s very existence is a minor miracle”

23/12/2019
Haaretz Newspaper covers the publication of "Amputated Tongue", "the first anthology of its kind of
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The Political Syntax of the Absentees

08/12/2019
How can the absentees possibly write about a space and time from which they are removed? What happen
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No! A short story by Sama Hasan

10/11/2019
If only she could find that word in her vocabulary. If only that word would cross the threshold of h
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