The purpose of this study was to evaluate the translation industry in Saudi Arabia in order to
identify the professional contexts for which universities should be preparing translators …

The first academic translation centre in Saudi Arabia was established in 1990 by King Saud
University; since then, translation has been developing as a discipline in its own right …

This study investigated Arabic teachers' perceptions of the practice of extensive reading
(ER) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The study was conducted as part of an …

I trust that my title leads the reader back to the familiar tag concerning translators, namely
“traddutore traditore” in Italian, implying that the translator is a “traitor.” This familiar quotation …

The paper aims to investigate the current state of Computer-Aided Translation (CAT) tools
integration into the translator-training programs of some universities in Saudi Arabia, which …

Book reading in the Arab region is believed to be lower than in regions of similar economic
status, but this has not been tested using nationally representative data. This study used the …

This study aims at investigating the phenomenon of censoring and withholding translated
books in Jordan. The source of data is a list of all banned translated books at Yarmouk …

The purpose of undertaking this research is to identify the cross-cultural translation
challenges that Arab translators often encounter while translating nineteenth-century …

Despite the renewed interest in Arabic writing following Naguib Mahfouz's winning of the
Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988, the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the war on terror, and the US …

In a 1975 article in MELA Notes, David Partington, then Middle East librarian at Harvard
College, attempted to estimate the number of publications produced in the Middle East (all …