The cultural encounter in translating from Arabic / The cultural context of translating Arabic literature / Exoticism, identity and representation in Western translation from Arabic / Autobiography, modernity and translation / Integrating Arab culture into Israeli identity through literary translations from Arabic into Hebrew / Translating Islamist discourse / On translating oral style in Palestinian folktales / The Qur'an : limits of translatability / Translating native Arabic linguistic terminology / Towards an economy and poetics of translation from and into Arabic