Othello

Dar El Karma is proud to present to the Arab library the complete translation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece: Othello, in which the great translator Dr. Mohamed Enani excelled, providing the best, most beautiful, most accurate, and closest Arabic text to the original spirit of this great work. It is a translation that is knowledgeable of Shakespeare's language and poetic arts, capable of conveying them in a smooth and powerful Arabic language, and in a text that matches the original in meaning, imagery, and rhythm.

In addition to the complete, unabridged, and unsimplified translation, this edition includes a detailed critical analytical introduction and comprehensive annotations, providing the most important information an Arab reader needs to know about this exquisite text, and increasing their appreciation for this brilliant author.

A book for every reader, and an edition no library is complete without.

About the translator
Dr. Mohamed Enani (1939-2023), "Dean of Translators," was born in Beheira Governorate. He was an Egyptian translator, writer, playwright, critic, and academic. He obtained his Bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature from Cairo University, a Master's degree from the University of London, and a PhD from the University of Reading.

He held many positions, including: Head of the English Department at Cairo University, Editor-in-Chief of the Contemporary Literature Series (series of translated Arabic literary works into English) at the Egyptian General Book Authority, responsible for the "Second Thousand Books" series at the Egyptian General Book Authority, and an expert at the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo.

He published more than 130 works, including books on criticism and language, in both Arabic and English, plays, literary biographies, and poetry in Arabic, and numerous translations from English, most notably his translations of Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and Lord Byron.

He received numerous awards, most notably: the State Award for Translation, for his translation of Milton's "Paradise Lost," the Order of Science and Arts, First Class, the Ben Turki Award for Excellence in Translation to English, the State Award for Literature, the Award for Distinguished Performance in Playwriting from the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts, the State Award for Excellence in Literature, the King Abdullah International Award for Translation, the Arab League Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization Award for Translation to English, the Rifa'a Al-Tahtawi Award for Translation to Arabic, and the Nile Award in Literature.