Oppression is not a point of view
EXPLORING 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
» Read moreابوظبي – سكاي نيوز عربية فازت المصرية منى بيكر، الثلاثاء، بلقب “عالمة اللغويات” لعام 2016 عن مجموعة مقالات “ترجمة المعارضة: أصوات من ومع الثورة المصرية”، التي تناولت فيها أهمية الترجمة في الوقت الحاضر واختار قراء نشرة الأخبار اليومية لعلوم الترجمة واللغويات “إنترانيوز” بيكر التي تحمل أيضا الجنسية البريطانية، وتعمل أستاذة دراسات الترجمة بمركز الترجمة والدراسات الثقافية في جامعة مانشستر بإنجلترا
» Read moreTue Jan 12, 2016 9:30pm GMT رويترز – اختار قراء نشرة الأخبار اليومية لعلوم الترجمة واللغويات (إنترانيوز) الأستاذة الجامعية منى بيكر المصرية البريطانية للقب “عالمة اللغويات للعام” 2016 عن مجموعة مقالات (ترجمة المعارضة: أصوات من ومع الثورة المصرية) التي تناولت فيها أهمية الترجمة في الوقت الحاضر وبيكر هي أستاذة دراسات الترجمة بمركز الترجمة والدراسات الثقافية في جامعة مانشستر بانجلترا وأفاد
» Read moreKontax Release Date | 2016-01-12 Professor Mona Baker et al have been elected by the readers of Inttranews as their “Linguists of the Year” for 2016, for “Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution”. Professor Mona Baker et al have been elected by the readers of Inttranews as their “Linguists of the Year” for 2016, for “Translating Dissent: Voices from
» Read moreDavid Palumbo-Liu(bio)1. Stanford University1 Symploke, Volume 23, Numbers 1-2, 2015, pp. 425-457 (Review) Download pdf: Palumbo-liu The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, edited by Cary Nelson and Gabriel Noah Brahm (2015), aspires to be “a resource to bring reason, history, and sound information to campuses confronting [the] BDS [Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions] agenda” (19). The editors clearly feel their book
» Read moreBy Jack Shenker A book exploring Egypt’s revolution and counter-revolution from below, published by Allen Lane / Penguin – Available now to pre-order – Egypt: 2011-16 “Egypt’s revolutionary turmoil has been misunderstood, and a great deal of that misunderstanding has been deliberate.” Five years on from the start of Egypt’s revolution, and counter-revolution, ‘The Egyptians: A Radical Story’ interrogates the
» Read moreSinosphere By OWEN GUO, JAN. 3, 2016, The New York Times BEIJING — From his graduate student dormitory in the southern city of Guangzhou, Yin Hao works late into the night with an online network of about half a dozen other volunteer translators. Their task: to post the American presidential debates, with Chinese subtitles. “Watching the U.S. presidential debates is like watching a
» Read moreAhram Online met with renowned Egyptian-British actor Khalid Abdalla and discussed his varied repertoire as a filmmaker, producer, co-founder of important film initiatives and also as a political activist Nourhan Tewfik , Saturday 26 Dec 2015 “It was a World War I play. We were in a classroom. All the chairs were moved to the side and there was a
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