Global translation conference set to kick off on Jan 28

Influential academics and translators from several countries will take part in the 9th Annual International Translation Conference and Problems of Interculturalisation from January 28.

Organised by the Forum of Arab and International Relations, the conference coincides with a ceremony to honour the winners of the 8th edition of Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding.

The two-day conference is a cultural and intellectual forum for translators which will discuss a number of themes in six scientific sessions. The themes are: Arabic/Turkish translation, Arabic translation from and into Kazakh, Vietnamese, Romanian, Swahili and Bahasa Indonesia.

The conference will also discuss topics pertaining to the contemporary western and Arab philosophical concepts, and translating masterpieces of world literature into Arabic, and the need to re-translate them.

Translation of the Arab intellectual heritage and the need to correct it and the translations of the noble hadith and the need to retranslate will also be discussed. Likewise, the conference will tackle the pitfalls of translators and the need to find a professional scientific body to approve qualitative translations, translation and manufacture of dictionaries, artificial intelligence (AI), and translation in times of pandemic, crises and wars.

The closing ceremony of Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding will be held with the honouring of the award winners of its 8th edition.

The participants are from Qatar, Spain, Jordan, UAE, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, Kuwait, Germany, Morocco, United Kingdom, United States, Italy, Turkey, Tunisia, Niger, South Africa, Oman, Syria, Palestine, France, Canada, Lebanon, Libya, the Netherlands, Egypt, New Zealand, Romania, Indonesia, Tanzania and Kazakhstan.