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If You Read Rumi in English, Read This New Yorker Article Jun 5, 2020 iran & translation & poetry & islam & sufism

Written by Rozina Ali, the article is called “The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi,” and it says something that Iranians I know have been “My Companion’s Scent Seeped Into Me” - National Sa’di Day Apr 21, 2019 translation & jewish

Today is National Sa’di Day, and I’ve been thinking about one of my favorite bits of verse from his Golestan: I held in my bath a perfumed piece of “Between the 1930s and the year 2000…only 32 novels were translated from Arabic into Hebrew.” Aug 20, 2017 translation & 2017

The post that statistic in the title comes from is from 2011. It’s by Olivia Snaije, Arabic and Hebrew: The Politics of Literary Translation, on the