Oppression is not a point of view
Closing deadline extended to 10 June 2016 The Department of Translation at the Chinese University of Hong Kong is now hiring a full-time Postdoctoral Fellow, initially tenurable for 12 months, with the possibility of further extension for an additional 12 months. As the first Department of Translation in Hong Kong, our programme has a long history of excellence in a
» Read moreThe London School of Economics and Political Science Impact Blog Drawing on citation data that spans disciplines and time periods, Elliott Green has identified the most cited publications in the social sciences. Here he shares his findings on the 25 most cited books as well as the top ten journal articles. The sheer number of citations for these top cited publications is
» Read moreIn 2016 Bahia Shehab started an international street campaign celebrating the work of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish. The first intervention was in Vancouver-Canada. In February she sprayed the stanza “Stand at the corner of a dream and fight” in downtown Vancouver. Street expression is no longer tolerated in Cairo. Shehab finds that the work of Darwish is more relevant
» Read moreEdited by Pauline Henry-Tierney and Dinithi Karunanayake Published by the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, University of Manchester ISBN: 978-0-9540829-6-3 ISSN: 1474-578X Contents Introduction Pauline Henry-Tierney and Dinithi Karunanayake pp. 1-3 When the Role of the Court Interpreter Intersects and Interacts with New Technologies Jérôme Devaux pp. 4-21 Towards the Construction of Organisational Professionalism in Public
» Read moreLiesl Schillinger interviews Lydia Davis Los Angeles Review of Books, 12 May 2016 Every act of reading is an act of translation. As you, the reader, absorb a text, you receive it through your own filter of the world and of words. When you read a book in English that was first written in another language, you rely on the filter of
» Read moreIn memoriam Martha Cheung, 1953-2013 Edited by Douglas Robinson © 2016 – Routledge 234 pages, Hardback: 9781138901759 Pub: 2016-05-12 This book presents an East-West dialogue of leading translation scholars responding to and developing Martha Cheung’s “pushing-hands” method of translation studies. Pushing-hands was an idea Martha began exploring in the last four years of her life, and only had time to publish at article length in
» Read morePaul Kelemen, author of The British Left and Zionism: History of a Divorce, looks at the roots of the recent controversies in the Labour Party May 2016, Red Pepper If the mainstream media is to be believed, the Labour Party is seriously afflicted with antisemitism. Although most of the remarks cited as incriminating were directed at Israel and pro-Israeli activism, and not
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mohammed Suliman | iopal.net | 6.5.10 A blackout as it is, you resort to a candle to light it up. In Gaza, you light the candle up. In Gaza, you read under a faint candlelight. In Gaza, you read; in the dark, you read. Gaza … Fourteen years in Gaza have taught me to
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) George Bisharat | Los Angeles Times | June 3, 2008 This essay was featured as the final segment of an on-line debate between George Bisharat and Judea Pearl that ran for five days as the ‘Dust-Up’ website feature of the Los Angeles Times and its sister publications Newsday, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun. I
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Fida Qishta | IMEU | 8 March 2008 Rafah, the Gaza Strip, March 3 – Israeli officials said today that they finished their military operation in the Gaza Strip, but the Israeli attacks continue, and we fear that Israel is still planning a major invasion. On February 29th, Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilnai
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