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PROTA: The Project for the Translation of Arabic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2016

Roger Allen
Roger Allen*
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University of Pennsylvania
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In 1993 I taught an NEH summer seminar for high-school teachers on the Arabic novel in translation. As I went through the listing of translated novels that are available in the 1990s and also made a choice from translations of other genres as back-up materials, I became newly aware of the wealth of material that we now have available. To be sure, it is not of the size and variety that is available for many other literary traditions, but there are now sufficient published novels and anthologies of poetry, drama and short-stories to devote entire courses or at least significant segments of them to individual genres and themes. I could not help thinking back to the start of my teaching career in 1968.

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Research Article
Information
Review of Middle East Studies , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , December 1994 , pp. 165 - 168
Copyright
Copyright © Middle East Studies Association of North America 1994

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References

PROTA-sponsored Translations

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