It has been said that the difference between and language and a dialect is that a language is a dialect with an army. Both the act of translation and bilinguali
Michael Cooperson's translation makes Abdelfattah Kilito's masterpiece available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Called the most inventive and
As one of the Arab world0́9s most original and provocative literary critics, Kilito challenges the reader to reexamine contemporary notions of translation, bil
Originally published in 1984, Thou Shalt Not Be Aware explodes Freud's notions of "infantile sexuality" and helps to bring to the world's attention the brutal r
A playful and erudite look at the origins of language In the beginning there was one language—one tongue that Adam used to compose the first poem, an elegy fo