Contrastive Analysis of Arabic-English Translation of Legal Texts

The present study aims to provide a contrastive analysis of Arabic-English translation ten legal texts with an eye evaluating the accuracy translation. researcher collected data from El-Farahaty’s (2015) Arabic–English–Arabic Legal Translation. A was developed assess selected. examination source and translations provided either by authoress book herself or sources which she them revealed serious errors such as overtranslation, omission translating important words in texts, wrong choice equivalents target language, gloss translation, punctuation mistakes grammatical texts. Further research on assessment is required encourage professional translators scholars approach more professionally responsibly.