Which way the Tower of Babel? Mohamed Moftah finds translation tricky
Jorge Luis Borges described Edward Fitzgerald's translation of Omar Khayyam as follows:
"A miracle happens: from the fortuitous conjunction of a Persian astronomer who condescends (...)
Green areas as imagined by today's planners are ecologically nonsensical, and a cultural anomaly to boot. Mohamed Moftah comments
Planting the desert -- but gardens in semi-arid parts of the world must take water scarcity into consideration
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