Paraphrasis Podcast

Bonus: Luke Leafgren on walls


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As he translated The Tale of the Wall by Nasser Abu Srour, Luke was faced with a problem: how to convey the realities of a Palestinian refugee camp without blanching the figurative richness of Nasser’s writing. In this bonus episode, Luke tells us about two Arabic words for wall and the English equivalents he chose.



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Paraphrasis PodcastBy Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard