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  • Wednesday ,06 April 2016
العربية

Flag-raising and the translation of the novel

Mina M. Azer

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Wednesday ,06 April 2016

Flag-raising and the translation of the novel

In Doha, the American flag is raised in a US military base, and the Israeli flag will join it at a sport tournament organized in the so called Arab country that organizes a beach volleyball tournament.  

This came while the Israeli team Judo did not raise the flag of his country in the United Arab Emirates during its participation in Judo Championship.
 
At the same time, Egyptian writer Aswani is being attacked for distributing one his novels in Israel, The Yacoubian Building. In fact, this novel was praised by many people before they start cursing it for being translated into Hebrew. However, many novels are being translated into Arabic, but they don’t mean to insult
other countries. We should stop isolating one another.
 
We curse one another and call one another traitors in order to appear in media. At the same time, Israel is raising its flag in Qatar to compete with other Arab teams. We should watch our language and be careful what to say.