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It is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.

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It does not take much to imagine the humanity of people you don't know.

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English is a forgiving language. It's not like Classical Arabic and it's not like French. You can speak broken English and be expressive and no one will hold it against you.

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Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

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In translation studies we talk about domestication - translation styles that make something familiar - or estrangement - translation styles that make something radically different. I use a lot of both in my translation, and modernism does both. For instance, if you look at the way James Joyce presents Ulysses, is that domesticating a classic? Think of it as an experiment in relation to a well-known text in another language.

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There were illegal poets like Muzaffar al-Nawab, this is the thing - Muzaffar was widely known and he didn't really have books. He would deliver these readings on cassette tape. Go on YouTube and listen to him. He's like a preacher. He's a really interesting figure in modern Iraqi life.

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The truly astounding thing is the Baathist regime supports poetry like nobody else, probably in the world.

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