This book explores the implications of Pierre Bourdieu s sociology of cultural production for the study of translation as a socio-cultural activity. Bourdieu s work has continued to inspire research on translation in the last few years, though without a detailed, large-scale investigation that tests the viability of his conceptual tools and methodological assumptions. With focus on the Arabic translations of Shakespeare s tragedies in Egypt, this book offers a detailed analysis of the theory of fields of cultural production with the purpose of providing a fresh perspective on the genesis...