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Mehmet Hakki Sucin
Mehmet Hakki Suçin is a Turkish academic, translator and Arabist. He holds an MA in Arabic Literature and a PhD in Arabic-Turkish translation.
Mehmet runs annual workshops in Istanbul on Arabic-Turkish literary translation and, in 2006, worked as visiting fellow at University of Manchester. He was a member of the judging panel of the 2014 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF). His studies focus on Arabic literature, translation studies, teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, and creative drama.
Among his published works are Translating News (2014), To Be in Another Language: Equivalence in Translation between Arabic and Turkish (2013), Translation into Arabic: Past and Present (2012), Active Arabic (2008), Turkish Grammar for Non-Native Speakers (2003).
His translations include Mahmoud Darwish’s I don’t Want for this Poem to End and Mural, Adonis’ Desire Moving Through Maps of Matter, Mohamed Bennis’ The Book of Love, Poetic Verses (Turkish translation of some short surahs of Quran), Khuloud Al-Mualla’s No Shadow for the Rose, Ahmad Al-Shahawy’s A Sky in my Name, Yahia Haqqi’s The Saint’s Lamp, and Amin Al-Khuli’s Modern Approaches to Arabic-Islamic Culture (co-translation with Emrullah Isler).
Contributor's Issues
The Tent Generations
Things I Left Behind by Shada Mustafa, translated by Nancy Roberts
Shadow of the Sun by Taleb Alrefai
Birds of Nabaa, A Mauritanian Tale by Abdallah Uld Mohamadi Bah
The Stone Serpent, Barates of Palmyra’s Elegy for Regina his Beloved by Nouri Al-Jarrah
Mansi A Rare Man in His Own Way by Tayeb Saleh (Banipal Books, 2020)
Tayeb Salih
Goat Mountain by Habib Selmi
Habib Selmi, author of Goat Mountain and 3 times shortlisted for the IPAF
The Mariner by Taleb Alrefai (Banipal Books, 2020)
Taleb Alrefai, author of Shadow of the Sun and The Mariner
Digital images
Fadhil Al-Azzawi's Beautiful Creatures by Fadhil al-Azzawi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Fadhil al-Azzawi
Poems of Alexandria and New York by Ahmed Morsi (Banipal Books, 2021)
Digital Banipal promotion B67
Saïd Khatibi
Amjad Nasser (1955–2019)
Digital Banipal the full archive
Denys Johnson-Davies (1922–2017) 70 years translating Arabic literature
Ahmed Morsi, author of Poems of Alexandria and New York
Sarajevo Firewood
The Madness of Despair
Mahmoud Shukair – see special feature of Banipal 70 (Spring 2021)
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Link to poems by Mosab Abu Toha, published in Banipal 71 (Summer 2021), available to read online
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Link to poem by Liana Badr published in Banipal 74, now available as an online selection
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GRIFFIN PRIZE SHORTLIST 2023
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