MULOSIGE seeks to re-emphasise the centrality of translation to existing discussion on World Literature.
Zain is a researcher and literary translator of Urdu literature, currently a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania On The Frightening Story By Scheherazade The inclination to startle and scare others is as old as that of storytelling itself. One may even say that these
Zain is a researcher and literary translator of Urdu literature, currently a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. New Mountain-diggers, New Axes “New Mountain-Diggers, New Axes” was the opening essay in the first issue of Shabḳhūn (or Night-Attack), dated June 1966. Shabḳhūn was a modernist
Alice Guthrie is an independent translator, editor, and curator specialising in contemporary Arabic writing. Widely published since 2008, her work has often focused on subaltern voices, activist art and queerness (winning her the Jules Chametzky Translation Prize 2019). Her bilingual editorial and research work has been part of the movement to decolonise Arabic-English literary
Alice Guthrie is an independent translator, editor, and curator specialising in contemporary Arabic writing. Widely published since 2008, her work has often focused on subaltern voices, activist art and queerness (winning her the Jules Chametzky Translation Prize 2019). Her bilingual editorial and research work has been part of the movement to decolonise Arabic-English literary
This essay was translated for the MULOSIGE project by Dr. Ambreen Salahuddin. Urdu Postmodernism: Some Thoughts or urdu māb’ad-e jadīdīyat: chand nakāt Written by Wahāb Ashrafi (1936-2012), translated by Dr. Ambreen Salahuddin To find the original essay in Urdu, please turn to pages 145-155 here. Photo by Janko Ferlič on Unsplash
This essay was translated for the MULOSIGE project by Dr. Ambreen Salahuddin. What is Poetics? or sh‘eriyāt kya hai? Written by Wahāb Ashrafi (1936-2012), translated by Dr. Ambreen Salahuddin To find the original essay in Urdu, please turn to pages 1-11 here. Photo by Álvaro Serrano on Unsplash There was
This essay was translated for the MULOSIGE project by Dr. Ambreen Salahuddin. The Hero of the Western Novel Dr Rafiq Sandeelvi Translated by: Dr. Ambreen Salahuddin (Part One) Photo by Esteban Lopez on Unsplash This is the post modern era of fiction. But as we look back century by
Daniela Merolla is Professor in Berber Literature and Art at the INALCO, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Sorbonne Paris-Cité). She taught and researched African Literatures and Media at Leiden University (NL) until 2015. Her research focuses on African oral literary productions as well as on written literatures and media in African and
Itzea Goikolea-Amiano Itzea is a postdoctoral researcher at SOASU niversity of London on the ERC-funded project MULOSIGE. Her PhD dissertation (The Hispano-Moroccan Re-Encounter: Colonialism, Mimesis, and Power in the Spanish War on Tetouan and its Occupation [1859-62], EUI-Florence 2017) a micro-historical account of one of the founding moments of Spanish modern colonialism in Morocco.
Mohamed Daoudi Mohamed Daoudi is an assistant professor of English at Hassan II University in Casablanca, Morocco. He earned his doctoral degree from Mohamed V University, Rabat, with a thesis on contemporary American postmodern fiction. He was a Fulbright scholar at The University of California, Berkeley (November 2005-December 2008) and Harvard University (Summer 2016).
