Khaled Al-Badour signs “Slight Pain Announcing the Existence of the Heart”

Khaled Al-Bdour during the book signing.

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The “Novels” pavilion for publishing, affiliated with Kalimat Group, hosted a book signing ceremony for the book “Light Pain Announces the Presence of the Heart”, by Emirati writer and poet Khaled Al-Badour. The book includes East Asian poetry poems from Japan, China, Thailand, India and Punjab, selected and translated from the English language.

Emirati writer and poet Khaled Al-Badour said: “I am not a translator, but I love translation, and when I like a text in a foreign language, I like to see what this text would look like in Arabic, and because I enjoyed the poem in English, I want to give other readers the opportunity to enjoy it by bringing it closer.” them in our Arabic language.

He adds: “We know a lot about the West, but we do not know the East, which contains treasures that have not yet been revealed, and although the movement of translating Eastern literatures has begun, we still have a lot to translate. A civilization such as China and India extends for more than seven thousand years, and therefore there is a large number of unknown It is a limited amount of poetry that we need dozens of years to translate.”

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