The present paper explores the textual practice referred to in translation studies as pseudotranslation with particular reference to Arabic pseudotranslations in the first half of the twentieth century. Rather than adopting Toury's (1980, 1995, 2005) definition of pseudotranslation as a text fictitiously presented as a translation of another text that has never existed it adopts the definition of Robinson (1998) and other scholars who give the name to a variety of borderline texts ranging from original texts with themes, character, setting imported from a foreign culture to texts presented as genuine translation of a source text though the interpretation offered by the translator produces what  almost verges on a new text that barely relates to its assumed source. Examples of Arabic poems by abdul Rahman Shukri, Ahmad Zaki abu Shadi and translations of Shelly's Ode to a Skylark are cited as examples of Arabic pseudotranslations in Robinson's sense.