Meet Obada Kassoumah, the Syrian Who Translated “Tsubasa”

Obada showing the Arabic version of Captain Tsubasa to friends. “I’ve become something of a star on campus,” he says.

To date, two volumes of Captain Tsubasa have been released in Arabic. The translated title appears above the original lettering for the Japanese Kyaputen Tsubasa.

Aoyama is a specialist in politics, thoughts, and history in the contemporary Arab East.

Aoyama and Obada showing off the fruits of their labor.

Obada hard at work at home.