A Life in Translation — with William Hutchins and Kevin Blankinship
The Lede
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How Did You Become Interested in Arabic Translation?
As a tea nager, i spent as amester in paris, studying french at the alliance francese. And by the time i graduated from college, i thought i was pretty clever in french. So i got a job teaching english for a year in lebanon at a private school. And people said, whell, you'd need to learn arabic, don't you? And i sad, well, of course, that would be fun. E, at the university of chicago, some random friend of a friend chastised me for studying arabic because he said, nothing's ever been written in it. O, i've been thinking i would get
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