Girls of Riyadh Revisited: Investigating the Quality of the English Collaborative Translation of Rajaa Alsanea’s Arabian Novel

The paper aims to assess the quality of English collaborative translation Rajaa Alsanea’s Arabian novel Girls Riyadh, focusing on linguistic and cultural features Target Text, a few which are sometimes nonexistent in Source Text. mixed literal/functional approach seems be inconsistent, observes, it is possibly due both apparent tension between self-translator her co-translator Marilyn Booth prominence target culture recurrent addresses two questions: To what extent has affected rendering linguistic, social, references such as idiomatic expressions, lexical terms, songs, names celebrities, religious, literary references, traditional festivities? How effective have literal functional been this translation? findings study show that procedures employed, omission, addition, alteration, unacceptable. Significantly, raises awareness about how potential inclusion exclusion certain parts texts can affect end product. This recommends fresh ‘critical translation’ ST fills specific points overlooked current ‘simple translation’: i.e., by paying attention message intention author suggesting use different translators. instead implementing erratically opposite approaches, done, translators should follow one them only. suggests solutions improve novel.