This collective monograph in the ‘Folia Orientalia—Bibliotheca’ series, Bridging Worlds:Translation as Cultural Practice, edited by Maciej Klimiuk and Arkadiusz Płonka, presents a selection of papers delivered at the Fifth International Conference Asian and African Languages in Translation and Interpretation, held on 17–18 May 2024 in Kraków.The conference was jointly organised by the Commission of Oriental Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences (Kraków Branch) and the Institute of Oriental Studies at the Jagiellonian University.