Comments on: Why the Arabs are lost in translation..

By: أحمد غربية

أحمد غربية — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:09:38 +0000

أوافقك يا دونا، و أختلف مع ميدان أن الترجمة هي الحل. فمادام المشاركون العرب في الفعاليات لا يكتبون عنها بالعربية فإن الترجمة لن تكون مجدية إلا بشكل طفيف.

مؤخرا أصبحت أصر على أن تكون مراسلات و محتوى الندوات التي أشارك فيها جمهورا عربيا كلها بالعربية.

By: mediaoriente

mediaoriente — Fri, 29 May 2009 16:01:46 +0000

Thanks Samandal! It’s a very cool website, shukran kteer:)
and yes, I think that there are now a number of cool grassroots initiatives on the Arabic web that we should mention and follow..Shukran!

By: Samandal

Samandal — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:11:52 +0000

Hey, Donatella. We talked about this at the comic jam and here is the link http://arabcomics.net

This will probably not mean a lot to those who didn’t grow up reading those comics, but these guys are active archivists of the translated and homegrown comics that were popular in the Arab world in the 70′s up until the 90′s.

Not only are they scanning and uploading their archives, but they are writing up articles about the medium and actively fan-translating new material from Japan and the US.

Arabic is becoming a more archaic language for a combined number of reasons; social, political and technological. I also agree with the symptom you mentioned, which is the lack of content production in that language. These symptoms are typical of societies that have a large diaspora, but let’s not overlook the many grassroots efforts mushrooming on the web.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:09:45 +0000

At least there one positive milestone was reached today. The 100,000th article has been published in the Arabic Wikipedia: http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B5%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%A9

mabruk!