18/02/2026
A practical workshop in translation focused on finding and conveying voice, and why voice matters. Participants will read and discuss some sample translations, gain an insight into a literary translator’s working method, and undertake a short translation of their own.
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Katharine Halls is a prizewinning Arabic-to-English translator and a literary agent at teneleven, who bring exciting contemporary Arabic literature to European readers. Her work appears in AGNI, The Kenyon Review, The Believer, McSweeney’s, Frieze, and elsewhere, and has been anthologised in The White Review Writing in Translation Anthology, Deep Vellum’s Best Literary Translations, and The Penguin Book of the International Short Story.
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The workshop will take place on March 5 between 2:30-5:00PM at the Orient Institute Beirut. Fill out the form by Feb 22 - link in comment - to apply for this free workshop with (human) literary translator Katharine Halls. Only five slots available.
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Part of “The Public Life of Empathy,” a multi-media, literary, translation, and art project that explores how writers and artists represent the psychological, ethical, and political manifestations of empathy as they are held witness to the violence inflicted on others during war and genocide.
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This project was made possible through the AFAC Training and Regional Events grant awarded to Zeina G. Halabi in 2025.
