Yousef Sahari
List of John Benjamins publications in which Yousef Sahari is involved.
Articles
2025 The pentathlon approach to translating Arabic songs into English Babel 71:4, pp. 548–577 | Article
The study aims to investigate the strategies used to translate three Arabic songs performed by the Lebanese singer Fairuz, an iconic vocalist and one of the most celebrated singers in the history of the Arab world. The analyzed data comprised the translations of three songs provided by five… read more
2025 Strategies for subtitling the s-word in Hollywood films into Arabic: A corpus-based study Target 37:4, pp. 568–589 | Article
This study investigates the translation strategies and prevailing approaches applied by Arab translators in translating the s-word. To achieve this aim, a corpus of ninety Hollywood films released between 2000 and 2018 was utilized. Both quantitative and qualitative analyses were conducted on a… read more
2024 A corpus-based study of subtitling religious swear words from English into Arabic FORUM 22:2, pp. 251–279 | Article
Subtitling Hollywood films with religious taboo words for conservative and closed societies, such as an Arab society, is a difficult task. This study investigates the dominant religious terms and functions used in Hollywood films and to identify the dominant translation strategies used for them… read more