Translation Strategies of the cultural elements In story collection “Abshoran”

Translating cultural elements within a literary text is one of the most important challenges that the translator encounters due to cultural and intellectual differences stemming from the spirit of the language. The translator’s task is to seek to find a cultural equivalent close to the recipient’s understanding in the TA’s culture. The equivalent that does not touch the circle of taboos of that culture. Abshouran by the Iranian novelist Ali Ashraf Darwishian constituted a distinct cultural and linguistic phenomenon. The story established a world narratively in detail and took place on the reality of misery and filth in proletarian society. It aroused the interest of Ahmed Musa to translate it into Arabic and focusing on its cultural aspects and transferring it to the Arabic language space. Through the descriptive method and comparing the translation process with the source text and analyzing it, as well as shedding light on cultural translation strategies from the translation scholars’ perspective, we search: How did the translator interact with the cultural elements as the shadow of the language in translating according to the cultural translation strategies? Based on this equivalence: Equivalency, neutralization, analysis, anatomy, and localization are related to the translation of local cultural concepts and the translator resorts to the equivalent and the cultural equivalent more then to the employment of brief explanation and analysis to avoid the ambiguity of the meaning and sometimes the translator did not choose the appropriate translation to convey the meanings of the original text.