Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Ghayth Abdul Ahad | The Guardian | 14/9/2004 It started with a phone call early on Sunday morning: “Big pile of smoke over Haifa Street.” Still half asleep I put on my jeans, cursing those insurgents who do their stuff in the early morning. What if I just go back to bed, I thought
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Scott Baldauf | Christian Science Monitor | 21 August 2004 NAJAF, IRAQ – Technically speaking, what we were about to do was more than risky. It was foolish. But we told ourselves that it was a risk for a cause. Thursday, several journalists and I began organizing a delegation to enter the Imam Ali
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Genug | NYC Indeymedia | May 22, 2005 A group of Jewish community human rights activists descended in protest on a highly-touted rally today featuring Israeli PM Ariel Sharon. Crying “Stop the mishegos [craziness], end the occupation!” the activists asked the crowd of executives of major Jewish organizations: “which of you will represent the
» Read moreCALL FOR PAPERS Texts and Contexts: The Phenomenon of Boundaries April 27-28, 2017 Vilnius University Kaunas Faculty of Humanities Muitinės Str. 8, Kaunas, Latvia The importance of boundaries in texts and contexts is now generally recognized, and the Conference offers an opportunity to present and learn about research findings concerning fuzziness of boundaries in different types of human communication, and
» Read moreCall for Papers 8th Asian Translation Traditions Conference. SOAS, University of London 5-7 July 2017. Conference theme: Conflicting Ideologies and Cultural Mediation – Hearing, Interpreting, Translating Global Voices Keynote speakers: Paul Bandia (Concordia University, Canada) Sameh Hanna (Leeds University, UK) Natsuki Ikezawa (Novelist, poet and translator, Japan). Full CFP available on conference website: http://www.translationstudies.net/joomla3/index.php Nana Sato-Rossberg (SOAS conference organizer)
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