When I act as a translator, I am really doing a performance for my fellow Anglophone readers in the West.

Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense.

I am a very bottom-up thinker.

I am not against Israel, I am against Zionists.

I am a West Point graduate and an Army veteran.

My metaphor for translation has always been that translation is really a performance art. You take the original and try to perform it, really, in a different medium. Part of that is about interpretation and what you think the author's voice really is.