Table of Contents

1. The ‘social turn’ in translation studies, Bourdieu’s sociology and Shakespeare in Arabic 2. Bourdieu’s sociology of cultural production: what is in a translation ‘field’? 3. Genesis of the field of drama translation in Egypt: the first Arabic Hamlet 4. Translators’ agency and new translation products: de-commercialising the ‘Arabic Shakespeare’ 5. Explaining retranslation: the dialectic of ‘ageing’ and ‘distinction’ 6. ‘Breaking the silence of doxa’: iconoclastic translations 7. Towards a methodology for a sociology of translation

About the Author

Sameh Hanna is a lecturer in Arabic literature and translation at the University of Leeds. His research interests include sociology of translation and Shakespeare translation into Arabic on which he published a number of peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited volumes. He also published a new edition of the first Arabic translation of Hamlet, with an introduction.