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Monday, February 15, 2016

The Arabic translation of Homer's Iliad is the second most sold book in Cairo IBF 2016

The offical page of the NCT in Cairo has announced that Homer's Iliad is the second most soldbook in Cairo International Book Fair From January 27, 2016 17:00 until February 10, 2016 19:00.


On the first place comes Masnavi of Rumi and the third Goethe's Faust.

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  1. It would be interesting to know what verse form is used.

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    1. It is not in verse, this translation, which was directly from Greek, is in prose. Peter Pormann wrote a review about it, see here Peter E Pormann. "The Arabic Homer: An Untold Story." Classical and Modern Literature(2007) : 27-44. About Sulaiman Al-Bustani's verse translation (published in 1904:free to download from this link http://www.hindawi.org/books/85205353/) see Magda El-Nowieemy's review here https://www.academia.edu/7142223/Sulaiman_Al-Bustanis_Translation_of_Homers_Iliad_A_Study_of_Creation_and_Trans-Creation.

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  3. thank you very much for this information, Usama!

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