Includes bibliographical references (p. 128-136) and index.

The cultural encounter in translating from Arabic / Said Faiq -- The cultural context of translating Arabic literature / Richard Van Leeuwen -- Exoticism, identity and representation in Western translation from Arabic / Ovidi Carbonell -- Autobiography, modernity and translation / Tetz Rooke -- Integrating Arab culture into Israeli identity through literary translations from Arabic into Hebrew / Hannah Amit-Kochavi -- Translating Islamist discourse / Mike Holt -- On translating oral style in Palestinian folktales / Ibrahim Muhawi -- The Qur'an : limits of translatability / Hussein Abdul-Raof -- Translating native Arabic linguistic terminology / Solomon I. Sara -- Towards an economy and poetics of translation from and into Arabic / Richard Jacquemond.

Translation is intercultural communication in its purest form. Its power in forming and/or deforming cultural identities has only recently been acknowledged, given the attention it deserves. The chapters in this unique volume assess translation from Arabic into other languages from different perspectives: the politics, economics, ethics, and poetics of translating from Arabic; a language often neglected in western mainstream translation studies.