On literature, culture, and questions of translation in theory and practice
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On Translating Mahmoud Darwish into Turkish
Marcia Lynx Qualey · ArabLit
Suçin has translated four collections by Darwish into Turkish, in addition to other works from a range of eras and styles, including eleventh-century belletrist Ibn Hazm, early twentieth…
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Poetry, Universality and the Question of Translation
Carthage Poetry Days
A panel entitled “Poetry, Universality and the Question of Translation”, held during the Carthage Poetry Days in Tunis on 24 March 2018, with Subhi Hadidi, Samia Kassab-Charfi and…
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Where Is Arabic Literature Heading?
Fahri Aral
At a panel organised by the Turkish Publishers Association and moderated by Fahri Aral, Mehmet Hakkı Suçin spoke alongside the critic Mamdouh Farrag al-Nabi and the poet Adnan…
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Literary Translation Between Arabic and Turkish
Yasir al-Atrash
A conversation with Mehmet Hakkı Suçin on the possibilities and challenges of literary translation between Arabic and Turkish and its intercultural role.
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Adonis: The Ongoing Debate on the Static and the Dynamic
Al Jazeera
The doctoral thesis written by the Syrian poet Ali Ahmad Said, known as “Adonis”, which later became a famous book entitled Al-Thabit wa al-Mutahawwil (The Static and the…
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Mehmet Hakkı Suçin: Arabic Literature in Turkish
Mamdouh Farrag al-Nabi
“I did not choose Arabic; Arabic chose me.” In Al-Jadeed’s cover interview, Mehmet Hakkı Suçin talks about his first encounter with Adonis, Yahya Haqqi, standard and colloquial Arabic,…
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The Influence of Nâzım Hikmet on Arabic Poetry
Jonathan Maurice Ross
In a lecture at Boğaziçi University moderated by Jonathan Ross, Mehmet Hakkı Suçin assessed Nâzım Hikmet’s poems in Arabic translation and the elegies written for him, and the…
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Mehmet Hakkı and Sevgi Suçin: The Turkish Couple’s Love Affair with Arabic Literature
Natalie Shooter
Brownbook visits Mehmet Hakkı and Elçin Sevgi Suçin in their Ankara home: on bringing Arabic literature into Turkish, poetry, literary magazines and a new generation of translators.