Translating for Bigots--informal lunchtime talk on translating modern Arabic literature

Translating for Bigots!

Adam Talib

Who are you calling a bigot?

Report by Abu Dhabi Gallup Center (December 2011) "Islamophobia: understanding anti-Muslim sentiment in the

west"

What does this any of this have to do with literary

translation?

Translating Arab women

as writers and as characters

misogynistic authors and misogynistic audiences

a controversial scene in Khayri Shalaby's The

Hashish Waiter