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Jonas Elbousty

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MPhil and PhD @Columbia, OAP; Literary Translator; Writer; Consultant; Academic @Yale| Books: Vitality and Dynamism; The Screams of War; Tales of Tangier, and…

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In some of the translation workshops I’ve led, I select a passage in Arabic and invite the group to explore it in multiple languages (languages they know). The discussions that follow are always fascinating. We reflect on how meaning shifts across languages and what gets lost,