The Necessity for Reconsideration of Arabic Novel Translations A critique of Symphony of Destiny

 this paper is a review of the Persian translation of the popular Arabic novel, Kunshirtu al-Hulukust wa al-Nakbah (Destinies: The Concerto of The Holocaust and The Naqba), by the Palestinian Rabai al-Madhoun. This work received the International Award for Arabic Novels in 2016; and then was translated into Farsi under the title of the Symphony of Destiny. Unfortunately, the translation shows many mistakes, both in translation process, in smooth rendering of Persian sentences, while at the same time the printed edition comes with a considerable amount of typing and editing errors. In this article, after introducing the novel and summarizing it, the errors of translation will be examined in three categories: "Mistakes in recognition of grammatical referents", "Mistakes in equivalents choices" and "Mistakes in comprehension of the original".