"Man with a Cat", a portrait of the art critic Aimé Azar by Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar, 1956, oil on wood. Azar's La Peinture Moderne en Egypte (Cairo: Les Editions Nouvelles, 1961) has just been translated into Arabic by Naim Attiya and Edwar al-Kharrat under the title Al-Taswir Al-Hadith fi Misr, to be launched next week by the Supreme Council for Culture (SCC). The publication of the book marks the 1,000th title in the SCC's "National Translation Project", on which occasion the council will be holding an international conference in Cairo entitled "Translation and the Knowledge Community" (11-14 February). About 200 translators, scholars and writers are expected to participate in the conference, which will address such themes as "reception and translation", "psychoanalysis and translation", "intellectual property", "epistemology and translation", and "machine translation". Reproduced from Abdel Hadi Al-Gazzar: An Egyptian Painter, edited by Alain and Christine Roussillon
