Damascus-based Dar Kanaan Publishing released ‘Translation Dialogues’, a book by Palestinian-Syrian writer and journalist Mahmoud Abu Hamed. The book includes interviews with translators from Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Syria, and Palestine who translated diverse works from Spanish, English, French, German, Kurdish, and Greek…The interviews were distributed on four sections: ‘Attempt for Justice’ featuring interviews with Osama Manzalgi, Refaat Atfa, and Abdul Saheb al-Batihi; ‘Third Language’ featuring interviews with Randa Baath, Osama Isper, and Said Boukhlit; ;Translation Standards’ featuring interviews with Adnan Hassan, Abdul Maksoud Abdul Karim, and Hussein Omar; ‘Article and Poetry’ featuring interviews with Rashid Ghouayleb, Mahmoud al-Sabbagh, and Jamal Haidar.
Written by Dr. Mohammed al-Shawish, the book’s introduction discusses two causes: the motives of translation, and the challenge of understanding other cultures. The book also includes many articles about translators and translations published under the title ‘Views and Experiences.’ In one article, Dr. Ahmad Barqawi answered major questions about the field: what is translation? What is the connection between translation and philosophy? What is the so-called ‘phenomenon of translated authorship’, mainly in western philosophy and its history.
