Translating Aspects of Culture from French to Arabic: Returning Originals to their Origins
The article examines the translation of cultural elements, as well as the changes that occur from language to language, from one culture to another. We will study strategies employed by authors for translating cultural elements, in order to identify a preferred strategy. To determine the context and circumstances necessary to choose one strategy over another we will examine La nuit sacrée, a novel by Tahar Ben Jelloun, published in 1987, and two Arabic translations undertaken and published in Egypt in 1988 and 1993.