Mehmet Hakkı Suçin
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Mehmet Hakkı Suçin is a Turkish author and Arabist
Arabist
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 (born 1970 in Tuzluca
Tuzluca
Tuzlucа is a town and district of Iğdır Province in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey. Part of the district forms the international border between Turkey and Armenia.-Etymology:The town was later renamed Tuzluca, Tuz meaning salt in Turkish...

, Turkey
Turkey
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).

Biography

He graduated from Ankara University
Ankara University
Ankara University is a public university in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in the Turkish Republic....

, Faculty of Letters in 1993. He worked as a translator and interpreter in Kuwait Embassy to Turkey (1993–1998). He completed his master thesis on Egyptian novelist and short story writer Yahya Haqqi
Yahya Haqqi
Yahya Haqqi was an Egyptian writer and novelist. Born to a middle-class family in Cairo, he was trained as a lawyer at the Cairo School of Law, graduating in 1925...

. His PhD was on equivalence
Equivalence
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 in Arabic translation
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...

.

He was one of the team members who produced semi-dramatic documentary named "Golden Wings: A Story of Courage", sponsored by Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation
The Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, also known as TRT , is the national public broadcaster of Turkey and was founded in 1964. Around 70% of TRT's funding comes from a tax levied on electricity bills and a sales tax on television and radio receivers...

 (TRT).

He works at Gazi University
Gazi University
Gazi University is a public university primarily located in Ankara, Turkey.It was established in 1926 by Kemal Atatürk as Gazi Teacher Training Institute...

; his research interest focuses on Arabic language and literature, translation studies
Translation studies
Translation studies is an interdiscipline containing elements of social science and the humanities, dealing with the systematic study of the theory, the description and the application of translation, interpreting or both these activities....

, foreign languages teaching methodology and linguistics
Linguistics
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.

Works

Some of his basic publications:
  • Öteki Dilde Var Olmak (To Be in Another Language; İstanbul: Multilingual Yayınları, 2007), ISBN 9756008331 listed in Translation Studies Bibliography.
  • Aktif Arapça (Active Arabic); 2009, Ankara: Engin Yayınevi), ISBN 9789753202930.
  • Arap-İslam Kültüründe Yenileşme (Renewal in Arabic-Islamic Culture; co-translated work with Prof. Emrullah İşler from Amin al-Khuli, Kitâbiyât Yayınları, 2006), ISBN 9756666439.
  • Qawâ'id al-Lugha al-Turkiyya li Ghair al-Natiqeen Biha (Turkish Grammar for Arabs; adapted from Mehmet Hengirmen's Yabancılara Türkçe Dilbilgisi); Engin Yayınevi, 2003).
  • Atatürk'ün Okuduğu Kitaplar: Endülüs Tarihi (Books That Atatürk Read: History of Andalucia; purification from the Ottoman Turkish
    Ottoman Turkish language
    The Ottoman Turkish language or Ottoman language is the variety of the Turkish language that was used for administrative and literary purposes in the Ottoman Empire. It borrows extensively from Arabic and Persian, and was written in a variant of the Perso-Arabic script...

    , published by Anıtkabir Vakfı, 2001).
  • Umm Hâşim’in Lambası (Lamb of Umm Hashim; translated from Egyptian author Yahya Haqqi
    Yahya Haqqi
    Yahya Haqqi was an Egyptian writer and novelist. Born to a middle-class family in Cairo, he was trained as a lawyer at the Cairo School of Law, graduating in 1925...

    , published by Ta-Ha Yayınları, 1998).

External links

  • http://gazi.academia.edu/MehmetHakkiSucin
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