Sheikh Zayed Book Award Announces Longlist in Translation Category

Last Update: Wednesday, November 30, 2016 : 13:12 (+4GMT)

Abu Dhabi, November 30, 2016: The Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA) announced today its long list for the Translation category, consisting of 8 titles out of 86 nominations received. These nominations came mostly from Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, and France.

The Longlist for translation includes;

Title	Language	Translator	Nationality	Publishing
1. ‘Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination’ authored by Christian Lange	English to Arabic	Riadh Miladi	Tunisian	Dar Al Madar Al Islami, Lebanon 2016
2. ‘Philosophy in the Flesh, the Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought’ authored by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson	English to Arabic	Abdelmajid Jahfa	Moroccan	Dar al Kitab Al Jadeed, Lebanon 2016
3. ‘Constantinople, City of the World’s Desire, 1453-1924’ authored by Philip Mansel	English to Arabic	Mostafa Kassem	Egyptian	The National Council for Culture, Arts, and Letters, Kuwait 2015
4. ‘The First World in The Middle East’ authored by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen	English to Arabic	Tareq Alayyan	Egyptian	Jarrous Press 2015
5. ‘Economy and Society’ authored by Max Weber	German to Arabic	Turki Mohamed	Tunisian	Arab Organization for Translation, Lebanon 2015
6. ‘S/Z’ authored by Roland Barthes	French to Arabic	Mouhammed Al Boukri	Moroccan	Dar al Kitab Al Jadeed, Lebanon 2016
7. ‘Le Métaphore Vive’ authored by Paul Ricoeur	French to Arabic	Mohamed El Ouali	Moroccan	Dar al Kitab Al Jadeed, Lebanon 2016
8. ‘Averroés: Le Philosophe Et La Loi’ Ibn Rushd	Arabic to French	Ziad Bou Akel	France/ Lebanon	De Gruyter, Berlin 2015

The award has announced its longlist in two categories so far;’ Arts and Literary Criticism’ and ‘Best Contribution to the Development of Nations’. The announcements will continue for the remaining awards during the next few weeks.

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