Jonathan Wright explores the odd case of Arabic literature; written in a language that few people speak, with a morphology that has hardly changed for more than a millennium

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Jonathan Wright draws on his own experience as a translator of contemporary Arabic fiction to examine and critique the assumptions that underpin a corpus of literature written in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), a language that no living person speaks as their mother tongue.

This is the annual Saif Ghobash Banipal Translation Prize Lecture.