Doha: Culture and Arts Chapter in Qatar University Alumni Association recently organised a cultural webinar “Translation and Cultural Forms,” which discussed various topics including translation and the culture, importance of language, and unspoken cultural patterns and applied models.
The Chapter’s Vice President, Amena Abdulkarim Farran said: “Translation is a complex procedure because it involves the transmission of vision, culture, civilization, and linguistic specificity and characteristics.
“It is also more difficult than writing since the writer has the freedom to express himself in his own way creatively and intellectually, whereas in translation he is forced to limit himself and stick to the author’s ideas. Despite all of these difficulties, the translator must nonetheless appear to the reader as a legitimate writer and create a text that implies as it was written.”
Among the speakers included College of Arts and Science Arabic Language Professor, Dr. Loui Khalil, and Literature and Criticism Researcher, Hind Al Ahmar.
