Month: April 2017

HKBU: Professor in the Translation Programme: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Classics

Job Announcements, Translation

Hong Kong Baptist University FACULTY OF ARTS Department of English Language and Literature Professor in the Translation Programme (PR327/16-17) Full-time, Non-tenure Track The Translation Programme was established in 1990 with the aim of training sophisticated cross-cultural communicators to serve the local community and the Chinese Mainland, and has since become one of the leading such programmes in the region, in

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The Conditions of Possibility: Democracy, Security, and Futurity in Post-Coup Cairo

Activist Initiatives, Citizen Media, Egypt, Events, Events, Protest Movements

Dr. Ian Alan Paul (Al-Quds Bard College, Abu Dis, Palestine) 9 June 2017 Martin Harris Building – JOHN CASKEN THEATRE The University of Manchester 14:00-16:00   Ian Alan Paul is a transdisciplinary artist, theorist, and curator. His practice encompasses experimental documentary, critical fiction, and media art, aiming to produce novel conditions for the exploration of contemporary politics and aesthetics in

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Samah Selim: Translator’s Introduction to Arwa Salih’s The Stillborn

Articles, Articles, Citizen Media, Egypt, Protest Movements, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent, Translation

Arwa Salih. The Stillborn: Notebooks of a Woman from the Student Movement Generation in Egypt. Trans. Samah Selim. London, New York, Calcutta: Seagull Books, Forthcoming 2017. Translator’s Introduction[1] Arwa Salih was an Egyptian communist who came of political age in the early 1970s; in the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, the end of the Nasser era, and the

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