Translating Great Literature into Arabic
Submitted by mwilliams on Fri, 2007-11-23 00:29.“Milton, Stephen Hawking and Haruki Murakami are to be translated into Arabic as part of a ground-breaking programme to spread foreign learning and literature across the Middle East.” The number of books translated into Arabic in the last 1000 years equals the number translated into Spanish in a single year, and thus the great works of literature are only available to a very few.
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I honestly think we should translate the other way around first, to once and forever have the Western world appreciate Arabic culture and science. I don't see why they need Hawkins more than we ought to read their classics. Arabs invented celestial charts and algebra long before we stopped trading turnips!
Good point!! Sometimes I wish I could word you up for your comments.
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