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culture

Syrian-born poet, philosopher and critic Adonis during the third Saif Ghobash Banipal Prize Lecture, on November 9. (Susannah Tarbush)

The merits and challenges of translation according to Adonis

Susannah Tarbush

MENA

Iraqi schoolgirls attend an English class at a school in western Mosul. (AFP)

Lost in translation

Oussama Romdhani

Germany

Changing perceptions. German translator Sandra Hetzel. (Al Arab)

German translator trying to change Western perception of Arabic literature

Khulud al-Fallah

linguistics

Hussein Mahmoud Hamouda, professor of Italian literature and language at the College of Arts of Helwan University. (Al Arab)

Egyptian linguist Hussein Mahmoud: ‘Translation is the best medium for dialogue between civilisations’

Russia

Zaur Gasimov, a research fellow in the Max Weber Foundation-linked Istanbul Orient-Institut. (Courtesy of Zaur Gasimov)

Explaining the depth of Russia’s engagement with the Arab world