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The mysterious fall and rise of the Arab crime novel

October 6, 2014 Mona Baker Culture, Egypt

Marcia Lynx Qualey Last updated: 28 September 2014 Why are gentleman-thieves and murder mysteries making a comeback in Arabic popular fiction? When Egyptian novelist and photographer Ahmed Mourad was asked earlier this year, why so few Egyptians were writing crime novels, he said that the genre was new, “and anything new is usually accompanied by a lot of attack and criticism”. Then

On Hunger Strike

October 3, 2014 Mona Baker Egypt, Human Rights, Omar Robert Hamilton, Police Brutality, Translating Dissent

Omar Robert Hamilton London Review of Books Vol. 36 No 19 · 9 October 2014 page 30 | 1717 words After the shock and awe tactics of the Rabaa massacre last summer, when Egypt’s military regime murdered around a thousand supporters of the deposed president, Mohamed Morsi, the rolling counter-revolution has played out mostly within the justice system, between police stations,

The Arab whodunnit: crime fiction makes a comeback in the Middle East

October 3, 2014 Mona Baker Culture, Egypt, Jonathan Guyer, Translating Dissent

The neo-noir revolution in the Arab world might be seen as nostalgic, but it allows writers to act as ombudsmen in the current political climate Jonathan Guyer Friday 3 October 2014 From Baghdad to Cairo, a neo-noir revolution has been creeping across the Middle East. The revival of crime fiction since the upheavals started in 2011 should not come

Found in Translation

October 1, 2014 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Other News, Translation

Netizens cry foul when a new Chinese media outlet selectively translates an Economist cover article. By BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 On July 22, a glossy new Chinese media venture known as the Paper announced its launch to much fanfare. A subset of Shanghai’s state-run Oriental Morning Post with outside investment estimated at $32 million, the Paper seems to be a venture into state-funded public service journalism. The timing is

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China, citizen media, netizens, The Economist, translation

Call for papers: Interpreting in Conflict Situations and in Conflict Zones throughout History

September 30, 2014 Mona Baker Call for Papers, Translation

Guest editors: Lucía Ruiz Rosendo (University Pablo de Olavide) & Clementina Persaud (University Pablo de Olavide) The figure of the interpreter as an intercultural and linguistic mediator in zones devastated by conflict has always existed due to the fact that conflicts have been intrinsic to the development of history. The distinctive trait of these interpreters is that, unlike other interpreters who

Translation and Meaning 2015

September 28, 2014 Mona Baker Events, Translation

Maastricht-Łódź Duo Colloquium Organisation The overall organisation of the International Maastricht-Łódź Duo Colloquiums is in the hands of the Maastricht School of Translation and Interpreting of Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (The Netherlands) and the Department of Translation Studies of the Institute of English Studies of the University of Łódź (Poland). The founders of the Maastricht-Łódź Duo Colloquiums are Dr.

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Łódź, Maastricht

Beyond Fault Lines: Translating "the Gulf" – March 23rd – 24th 2015

September 28, 2014 Mona Baker Events, Translation

Location: Qatar National Convention Center, Doha, Qatar Deadline for proposals: October 30th, 2014 Conference dates: March 23rd – 24th, 2015 Conference is organized by: Translation and Interpreting Institute (TII) “Beyond Fault Lines: Translating ‘the Gulf’” is the sixth in a series of annual international conferences that aim to create a Gulf-based platform for discussing issues related to translation. It will be held from March 23 to

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Arabic, Qatar, The Gulf, Translation and Interpreting Institute

Juggling a cacophony of tongues, UN interpreters avert linguistic disaster

September 26, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Feature: UN News Centre 22 September 2014 Out of potential linguistic chaos, a corps of over 100 United Nations interpreters brings order and comprehension as speaker after speaker from around the world takes the podium of the General Assembly to give their annual speeches at the General Debate, discusses war and peace in the Security Council, or delves into

Revolution Is My Name: An Egyptian Woman’s Diary from Eighteen Days in Tahrir

September 24, 2014 Mona Baker Activist reflections, Egypt

Mona Prince Translated by Samia Mehrez English edition Sep 2014 200 pp. Paperback $16.95 /LE90 ISBN 978 977 416 669 3 “For thinking about how the collective memory of revolution is being created right now, even as the revolution regains its steam, there is no better place to start than with Mona Prince’s remarkable memoir of the 25 January Uprising. . . . Revolution is My

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Egyptian Revolution, gender, Mona Prince, Samia Mehrez

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