Virtual Seminar with Dr. Mohamed Ait Mihoub, Winner of the 2020 Translation Award
Date May, 04 2020
Location Live Digital Seminar on WebEx
Sheikh Zayed Book Award organized an online literary discussion in collaboration with Al Multaqa Literary Salon via Webex platform with Dr. Mohamed Ait Mihoub, SZBA 2020 recipient of the Translation Award. The virtual session allowed the winner to discuss his winning book Al-Insan Al-Romantiqi (L’homme romantique) by French philosopher Georges Gusdorf, translated from French to Arabic and published by Dracher Sinatra/Tunis Institute for Translation in 2018.
The session was hosted by Asma Siddiq Al Mutawaa, Founder and Chair of Abu Dhabi's Al Multaqa Literary Salon and moderated by Dr. Hana Sobhi, Professor of Literature and French language at Sorbonne Abu Dhabi University.
Speakers
Dr. Hana Sobhi
Professor of Literature and French language at Sorbonne Abu Dhabi University

Dr. Mohamed Ait Mihoub
Tunisian translator and academic, Ph.D. in Arabic Language and Literature from the University of Arts and Humanities of Tunisia (2007). He currently works as assistant professor of Arabic language at Zayed University, Abu Dhabi. From 2008 to 2019 he taught Modern Arabic Literature and Translation at the University of Human and Social Sciences of Tunis. He has produced a number of literary programmes for Cultural Radio of Tunisia. He is the president of both: The Judgement Committee of the short story competition by “CTAMA” foundation as well as the Judgement Committee of “Mustapha Azouz” Award for Child Literature, and has served as a judge for numerous literary prizes. He won the Highest Tunisian Literary Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture in 1994 and 1995 respectively.

Asma Seddiq AlMutawaa
Founder and President of Al Multaqa Literary Salon.