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Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation wins Gourmand World Award
Dubai, Feb 24, 2010 (WAM)- The book entitled "Green Food Fun" published by Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation won the "Best in the World Award for Translation" at the annual Gourmand World Awards held in Paris. This year's winners were selected from applications from 136 countries.
The Foundation issued the book under its Tarjem (translate) Programme which seeks to develop the translation process in the Arab World. The award winning book written originally by Lisa Bullard, was translated into Arabic by Flora Majdalawi and was published by Majdalawi Masterpieces.
Aimed at children aged 4 to 8, the book is part of a series that has been adapted to deal with cultural differences. It showcases bright photographs of food with short, rhyming, and simple nutritional facts about green food. The book also includes a glossary of the less frequent words, an index, and other sections that encourage further reading.
Launched in 2008, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation's ‘Tarjem' translation programme aims to enrich the Arab culture with knowledge from other sources, inspire cultural dialogue with the outside world through translation, open up new doors to sources of knowledge, provide translated works that comply with the highest standards, and create a new generation of proficient translators. In addition to publishing the translated books, the Foundation is committed to purchasing 1500 copies of every translated title in order to support knowledge production in the Arab World.
The Gourmand World Awards were founded in 1995. They aim to reward and honour those who "cook with words", help publishers with international rights to translate and distribute books and aid bookstores in finding the best books to display.
The Foundation issued the book under its Tarjem (translate) Programme which seeks to develop the translation process in the Arab World. The award winning book written originally by Lisa Bullard, was translated into Arabic by Flora Majdalawi and was published by Majdalawi Masterpieces.
Aimed at children aged 4 to 8, the book is part of a series that has been adapted to deal with cultural differences. It showcases bright photographs of food with short, rhyming, and simple nutritional facts about green food. The book also includes a glossary of the less frequent words, an index, and other sections that encourage further reading.
Launched in 2008, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation's ‘Tarjem' translation programme aims to enrich the Arab culture with knowledge from other sources, inspire cultural dialogue with the outside world through translation, open up new doors to sources of knowledge, provide translated works that comply with the highest standards, and create a new generation of proficient translators. In addition to publishing the translated books, the Foundation is committed to purchasing 1500 copies of every translated title in order to support knowledge production in the Arab World.
The Gourmand World Awards were founded in 1995. They aim to reward and honour those who "cook with words", help publishers with international rights to translate and distribute books and aid bookstores in finding the best books to display.
