Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Diana Zimmerman and Kim Lamberty | Christian Peacemaker Team | 23 March 2005 Sheep are ill and dying on the day following the discovery of poison pellets on the land outside the Palestinian town of At-Tuwani adjacent to the illegal Israeli settlement outpost of Havot Ma’on. Two sheep are dead and others are ill.
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Right2Education Campaign | Birzeit University, Palestine | 8 March 2005 Israel forcibly removed four Palestinian students from their studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank and illegally deported them to the Gaza Strip last November. The four Gazan students were not accused of any offence and their forced expulsion is being seen as
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Hugh Muir | The Guardian | 4 March 2005 Ken Livingstone has reignited his dispute with Britain’s Jewish leaders by launching a provocative attack on the “war criminal” Ariel Sharon. In a riposte to criticism from the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the London mayor accused Israel of “ethnic cleansing” and said its
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London | The Guardian | 4 March 2004 Not to speak out against this injustice would not only be wrong. It would ignore the threat it poses to us all. Racism is a uniquely reactionary ideology, used to justify the greatest crimes in history – the slave trade, the extermination
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amira Hass | Haaretz | 21 February 2005 The Madama village’s spring was deliberately contaminated and its water supply system was sabotaged 10 days ago, village council head Ayed Kamal said Sunday. This is the sixth time in the past three years that the spring, the only source of water of the village’s 1,700
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Amira Haas | Haaretz | 17 February 2005 One can see it as a private problem of four Gazan students – Bashar Abu Shahla, Walid Mahna, Mohammed Matar and Bashar Abu Salim. The four were about to complete their studies at the engineering department of Bir Zeit University this year. They were supposed to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Council for the National Interest | 21 February 2005 Hiding behind a 17-5 decision announced today to evacuate all Israeli settlements from Gaza, the Israeli Cabinet also officially signaled its intent by a vote of 20-1 to annex another 7% of Palestinian territory. On February 21, the cabinet published the new route of the
» Read moreEXPLORING THE TEMPORAL DIMENSION OF CROSS-CULTURAL TRANSFER Department of Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong CALL FOR PAPERS / PANELS Largely overshadowed by the metaphor of space, the relation between translation and time/temporality remains surprisingly untheorized and understudied. Except for some isolated references (Cronin 2003; Baker 2006; Bassnett 2013), there has been no sustained engagement with the issue, let
» Read moreRelease Date | 2016-01-19 Professor Mona Baker et al, elected by the readers of Inttranews as their “Linguists of the Year” for 2016, for “Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution”, have donated the prize money to Solidarités International. Professor Mona Baker et al, elected by the readers of Inttranews as their “Linguists of the Year” for 2016, for
» Read moreEgypt may today look like a tragic example of why mass protest is doomed, but the turmoil of the five years since Tahrir Square has unleashed a will for change and a resistance to power among ordinary citizens that could yet transform the country, and maybe the world Jack Shenker The Guardian, Saturday 16 January 2016 The video is shot from
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