A selection of interviews, talks and programmes with Mehmet Hakkı Suçin on literature, poetry, translation, the journey of Arabic literature in Türkiye, Turkish–Arab literary relations, and the teaching of Arabic.
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Mehmet Hakkı Suçin: “I Am the Ambassador of Arabic Literature in Turkey”
Aws Ya‘qub
An interview on choosing what to translate, the complementary poetics of Adonis and Mahmoud Darwish, restoring the standing of Arabic poetry in Turkish, the challenges of translating classical…
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Mehmet Hakkı Suçin: “The Translator Takes the Reader on a Journey Through the Texts of the Other”
Muhammad Miqdadi
An interview on first encounters with Arabic, the damage done by poor translations, translation as second-degree creation and crisis management, recreating rhythm in classical poetry, teaching Arabic in…
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Experiences in Community Interpreting Training
Tutku Öncü Yılmaz and Güldane Duygu Tümer
As a guest of the Department of Translation and Interpreting at Manisa Celal Bayar University, Mehmet Hakkı Suçin spoke about the community interpreting training he has given and…
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Sezai Karakoç’s Translations of Poetry from Arabic Literature
Abdullah Uçman
Mehmet Hakkı Suçin’s paper “An Assessment of Sezai Karakoç’s Translations of Poetry from Arabic Literature”, presented at the Sezai Karakoç Symposium held at the Zeytinburnu Cultural Centre on…
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The Translator Says: Mehmet Hakkı Suçin
PostÖykü
Mehmet Hakkı Suçin on his translations during the pandemic — Mahmoud Darwish, the Muʿallaqat, Ibn Tufayl’s Hayy ibn Yaqzan and Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail — and on his…
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Reference Frameworks and the Teaching of Arabic to Non-Native Speakers
Ahmed Dumati
A conversation with Mehmet Hakkı Suçin on the CEFR, teaching Arabic as a foreign language, and curriculum development.
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Mehmet Hakkı Suçin, Guest of “Çeviri Notları” (Translation Notes)
Kurtuluş Özyazıcı
On the TRT programme “Çeviri Notları” (Translation Notes), producer Kurtuluş Özyazıcı talked with Mehmet Hakkı Suçin about his journey as a translator, starting from several of the works…
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Ask the Translator: Mehmet Hakkı Suçin on Minor Detail
Parşömen Fanzin
Mehmet Hakkı Suçin on translating Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail into Turkish: how he came to the book, its two contrasting parts, the difficulties of Arabic–Turkish syntax, and Shibli’s…