Abu Dhabi (Etihad)
The “Kalima” translation project at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center, affiliated with the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, has released the book “The Geography of Political Mosquitoes” by the famous French novelist and thinker Eric Orsina and the French scientific researcher and doctor Dr. Isabelle de Saint Aubin. The translation of the book was compiled by the Moroccan storyteller and translator Muhammad Al-Khudairi, revised and presented by the Iraqi poet and academic Kazem Jihad, residing in Paris.
Orsina considers this book, and a number of other books written in the same way, as scientific investigations. In addition to his extensive scientific knowledge, he enlists vitality in research and travel wherever his research material leads him, from one end of the world to the other. This work was written using the knowledge of Dr. Isabelle de Saint Aubin, a physician specializing in vascular diseases, who contributed to the preparation of the book as a scientific advisor to its author and assistant in documentation and research. To put this work together, they made a series of real and intellectual trips across the world, and studied mosquito colonies and means of avoiding their bites and treating them from infection with the diseases and epidemics they carry, and they reviewed all this with workers in the field in the most important sites concerned with it.
The book, as the references confirm, has many affiliations and faces. It combines an intellectual adventure and a research journey with an obsession with excavation in books, scientific encyclopedias, and the fine art of dialogue. And multiple is still fought against mosquitoes. All this comes to us through the language of a well-versed novelist, with a wide achievement in this field, skilled in the art of suspense and tempting presentation of facts and ideas.
In the biography of the French writer Eric Orsina (born in 1947) and in his cultural formation, a kind of amazing pluralism. After he finished his double university studies, in political sciences and economics, he became a researcher and professor in the field of international finance and development economics. Then, during the reign of François Mitterrand, he became an advisor to the Elysee in cultural cooperation, with African countries in particular. He published several books on economics under his explicit name, Eric Arnaud, and then, starting with his first novel, The Loyola Melancholy (1974), chose for all his subsequent books a pseudonym by which he became known only: Eric Orsina.
Dr. Isabelle de Saint-Auban is a vascular doctor who studies all aspects of arteries and veins. She was born in Gabon in Africa due to her father’s work as an agricultural engineer there, so she knew the world of mosquitoes closely, and she was the best scientific advisor to the writer in this work.
As for Mohamed El-Khoudairi, he is a Moroccan writer and translator, born in 1986. He has published in literary magazines many stories and critical articles. He translated from French the novel “The Hospital” by Moroccan novelist Ahmed Bouanani (2013), which was nominated for a shortlist for the “High Atlas Prize”.
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