Oppression is not a point of view
4 August 2014 Peter Cohen Sociologist; Jewish World War II Survivor Editor’s note: The author is a retired sociologist from the University of Amsterdam and a Jewish-Dutch World War II survivor. He does not consider the latter relevant to his view on this topic, but we found it pertinent to include. “Anti-Zionism, in fact, is the form that much of today’s
» Read moreEsperança Bielsa Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Published in Cultural Sociology, online before print September 2, 2014, doi:10.1177/1749975514546235 Abstract Whereas globalization theory was predominantly silent about the role of translation in making possible the flow of information worldwide, assuming instant communicability and transparency, translation has gained central importance in recent accounts of cosmopolitanism that emphasize global interdependence and the negotiation
» Read moreMosireen, a media collective responsible for collating some of the most iconic videos of the Egyptian revolution, is now one of the most popular non-profit channels in the world after just four months of being on YouTube Bel Trew, Friday 20 Jan 2012 Mosireen, an Egyptian media collective of filmmakers and citizen journalists, has become the most viewed
» Read moreFirst Forlì International Workshop Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna Forlì, Italy, 7-8 May 2015 More than 15 years have passed since the late Miriam Shlesinger called upon the Interpreting Studies community to embrace corpus-based methodologies (Shlesinger 1998). Corpus-based methodologies enable researchers to collect empirical data in quantities large enough to make reliable generalizations about interpreter
» Read moreBy Amira Howeidy | SEP 02, 2014 Within four months of the military’s ouster of Mohamed Morsi, one of the icons of liberalism serving in the new cabinet, Ziad Bahaa-Eldin, admitted to CNN that those who called for political reconciliation, like himself, were alienated by the political mood, where the very concept of reconciliation has become “a dirty word” in Egypt. Yet when
» Read moreby Guiomar Rovira Sancho, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico Guiomar Rovira Sancho, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Carlos Lazo 218, int 2, Col. M.Hidalgo, cp. 14250, Mexico City, Mexico. Email: ondina_peraire@yahoo.com Published online before print July 15, 2014, doi: 10.1177/1354856514541743 Convergence July 15, 20141354856514541743 Abstract E-mail and Web pages made it possible to generate a space for global mobilization against the repression of the Zapatista indigenous rebels
» Read more2nd ULICES Conference on Translation Studies – JET2 Venue: Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon Date: 3-4 December 2014 Keynote Speakers Abram De Swaan, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Stefania Taviano, University of Messina, Italy Call For Papers The rise of English as an international world language has had a dramatic effect on the practice of translation in all
» Read moreInnovation Paths in Translation and Intercultural Studies Call for Presentations (papers, roundtables, workshops, “rapid fire” PhD presentations, and posters) Deadline: 10th of September 2014 Following successful conferences in Seoul (2004), Cape Town (2006), Melbourne (2009) and Belfast (2012), IATIS is delighted to announce its call for panel, paper, roundtable, workshop, “rapid fire” PhD presentations and poster proposals for its fifth
» Read morePosted: 09/02/2014 Dalia Abd El-Hameed Gender and women’s rights officer for the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR). Yara Sallam, the transitional justice officer at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, was arrested on June 21 a block away from a Cairo protest march against a draconian law that effectively bans demonstrations. Under the law, in effect since
» Read moreby Hannah Elansary Sept 01 2014 The graffiti and street art of revolutionary Egypt have been researched many times over by now.Journalists and scholars have explored the phenomenon in its many aspects—as evolving visual text, as political rhetoric and as an act of protest in its own right. The claims about the protest street art and graffiti that have proliferated across public Egyptian walls since 2011 have been
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