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Podcast: BULAQ | بŮŮاŮ
Episode: Stolen in Translation
Description: We talk about looking down on dialect; passing literary theft off as âsalvationâ; the beginning of awards season; a book that is a fragmented portrait of Jerusalem; and our fellow podcasters in the region.Show notesThe controversy over the appearance of some darija (Moroccan colloquial) words in a Moroccan school textbook reached the highest levels of government.Since we recorded Episode 20, Israelâs Resling Publishing has pulled a short-story collection, Horreya, in which they published womenâs short stories translated from Arabic to Hebrew. Reslingâs statement says that they are investigating the matter. The...