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Arabic Collections Online: A Digital Archive

A digital archive sponsored by NYU Abu Dhabi is repatriating some of the Arab world's written heritage, one book at a time. Some 200 scholarly works are already online, with many more to come.

Arabic Classics in Contemporary Translations

The Library of Arabic Literature (LAL) was founded with high ambition: to make the treasures of pre-modern Arabic writing accessible to the world's English speakers through high-quality parallel-text editions.

The Library of Arabic Literature: "More and Better"

The Library of Arabic Literature, which is sponsored by a grant from the NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, received strong praise from one of the world's premier literary reviews, the Times Literary Supplement.

The National Reviews First Library of Arabic Literature Publication

A review of the first publication released by NYU Abu Dhabi's Library of Arabic Literature was published in The National this past weekend.

Translating Arabic Literary Classics for a Global Audience

For many literary enthusiasts it might be considered criminal to compile a list of the great classics without including among them the translated works of authors like Tolstoy or Cervantes.

NYUAD’s Library of Arabic Literature Releases First Publication

Classical Arabic Literature: A Library of Arabic Literature Anthology makes an eclectic collection of classical Arabic poetry and prose available in English

Library of Arabic Literature to Be the First of its Kind

With the long-term goal of creating a major library of classical Arabic literature in English, the newly launched Library of Arabic Literature (LAL) is already on its way.

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Arabic translation comes of age
The first volumes of the Library of Arabic Literature, an ambitious translation project of classical Arabic works into English, appeared five years ago, with several dozen now being available to international readers. But this is just the beginning, library editors Philip Kennedy, James Montgomery, Shawkat Toorawa and Chip Rossetti explain.
Al-Ahram Weekly | April 07, 2018