Translation: Art and Soul
Date September, 12 2021
Location Live Zoom Webinar
In collaboration with Sea of Culture UAE, the Sheikh Zayed Book Award hosted a webinar titled "Translation: Art and Soul” with the 2021 award-winning translator Michael Cooperson and chaired by Inas Suleiman, Director of Dar Al Hiwar for Publishing and Distribution.
As a platform for discussion, the webinar explored topics such as the impact of translation on cultural interaction in the new media era and how to establish a relationship between translation and other branches of humanities.
Highlights from the session are available for viewing on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJJ92mH56y8.
The full session is available for viewing via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbmugK5vzvs.
Speakers
Inas Suleiman
Director of Dar Al Hiwar for Publishing and Distribution
Michael Cooperson
An American author and translator, Cooperson studied at Harvard University and the American University of Cairo, and is currently a professor of Arabic language and literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published two monographs on early Abbasid cultural history: ‘Classical Arabic Biography’ and ‘Al-Ma'mun’. In addition to Impostures, he has translated Abdelfattah Kilito's ‘L'Auteur et ses doubles (The Author and his Doubles)’ and Ibn al-Jawzi's ‘Manaqib al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal (Virtues of the Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal)’. His other interests include Maltese language and culture.