NEW PUBLICATION: THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF ARABIC TRANSLATION, co-edited by Sameh Hanna, Hanem El-Farahaty and Abdel-Wahab Khalifa

For colleagues, translators and consultants interested in the past and present realities of translation from and into Arabic, this volume should be useful. 27 chapters by a wide range of scholars from different theoretical and professional backgrounds pose methodological, as well as epistemological questions, about the dynamics of translating and researching translation in an Arab/ic – Islamic context. The chapters cover such diverse areas and genres as translation of sacred texts (including the translation of the Bible into Arabic), history/historiography of translation, translators’ agency, translation and ideology, technical and scientific translation, media translation, translation of human rights across linguistic/cultural boundaries, among others.