Writings on his authored works, translations and research
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Kanafani and Shibli: Different Stagings of Palestine, Different Stagings of Death
Süreyyya Evren
Süreyyya Evren
Süreyyya Evren reads Ghassan Kanafani’s Men in the Sun alongside Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail, exploring how silence, repetition, and narrative form stage Palestinian death across different historical moments.
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An Arab Poet Beyond Time: al-Mutanabbi
Suad Baran
Suad Baran
In an earlier article I tried to explain at length that the prejudices and stereotypes to which Arabic literature has been subjected lie behind its failure to attract…
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Al-Mutanabbi’s Poems in Turkish for the First Time, in an Aesthetic Translation
Esat Ayyıldız
Esat Ayyıldız
Esat Ayyıldız reviews The Song of Man, Mehmet Hakkı Suçin’s Turkish selection from al-Mutanabbi: its reception, Ali bin Tamim’s preface, the translator’s method, and how the translation creates…
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A poet’s effort to reach the truth with poetry
Abdullah Aren Çelik
Abdullah Aren Çelik
“In this respect, ‘The Book, Discourse, Truth’ can be read as a poet’s relationship with poetry, as well as responding to this “meaningless” situation. It even goes further…
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The Poet of “The Horses, the Night and the Desert” in Turkish for the First Time
Abdo Wazen
Abdo Wazen
In Independent Arabia, Abdo Wazen discusses The Song of Man, Mehmet Hakkı Suçin’s selection from al-Mutanabbi: the three obstacles to translating him, the commentaries Suçin relied on, and…
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Mehmet Hakkı Suçin in the Seas of al-Mutanabbi
Mohammad Nour al-Din
Mohammad Nour al-Din
In the Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, Mohammad Nour al-Din reads The Song of Man as an unprecedented translation adventure, a dive into al-Mutanabbi’s “sea” that brings the classical and…
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The Shakespeare of the East, al-Mutanabbi, in Turkish for the First Time
Ömer Erdem
Ömer Erdem
“Al-Mutanabbi’s poetry is the song humanity has sung through the ages. Ages, people and poems change, but the ‘song’ always remains the same. What Dante is to the…
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Poetry Translation: A Necessary Path of Civilisation
Ali bin Tamim
Ali bin Tamim
If translation theory rests on accuracy in transferring a text from one linguistic system to another, accuracy appears to be a difficult demand when translating a poetic text.…