The present study focuses on children's cartoons dubbed from English into Arabic and shown on E-junior channels in Abu Dhabi and Dubai television. The paper examines the strategies adopted by Arab translators to render one of the most problematic areas in translation, that is idiomatic expressions, throughout the process of translating and dubbing children's cartoons. The analysis of the rendering of each idiomatic expression indicates that the following strategies are shown to be used in translating idioms for dubbing purposes: dynamic translation, naturalisation/localisation, addition, deletion and word-for-word translation.
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Jehan Zitawi (2003) studied this question.