The current study discusses the adaptation technique and how it is applied with its different modes to a literary text through explaining how the translator of Mahfouz's epic of "The Riff-Raff" (AL-Harafish) employs it to achieve the equivalence between different cultures.The findings show that the translator of Mahfouz's epic of "The Riff-Raff" (AL-Harafish) has succeeded in employing adaptation ...