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This introduction to The Translator special issue Translating in the Arab World attempts to reframe some of the key debates in contemporary Translation Studies around the Arab(post-)colony and to suggest new ways of thinking about translation ethics, the position of the translator and the discursive and material situations and institutions that shape her practice, from the early twentieth century to the present. By focusing on the histories and political economies of translation practice in the Arab world, the articles in the issue propose new ways of thinking about the figure of the translator as a bodied agent with warring interests and desires, and about translation ethics as a contingent and deferred utopia.

Special Issue of The Translator: Translating the Arab World

Introduction to the special issue by Richard Jacquemond and Samah Selim