links for 2009-09-27

• Revealed: the royal waive which means no spending cuts for the Windsors | UK news | The Guardian
  I am so writing an essay out of this
  (tags: monarchy publicdebate finance raisetherepublic)
• New title on Vietnamese nationalist Phan Chau Trinh
  Phan Châu Trinh, often credited for being the first and most articulate champion of democracy and popular rights in Vietnam – Cornell releases a translation of his four best essays. to investigate.
  (tags: books vietnam intellectuals)
• WWB: The Culture of Translation by María Rosa Menocal, translated from the Georgian by
  on the richness of medieval Arabic culture, and its impact on medieval Europe, when, throughout the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, it travelled across the continent "in many guises, in translations of a hundred varieties, in attitudes about culture, or in songs that were sung and heard and then played again in a different language"
  (tags: arabic islam europe translation crossculturalfertilization poetry cities history middleeast)