Category: Film

Postdoctoral Fellow: The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Events, Eyewitness Reports, Film, Hacktivism, Human Rights, Interviews, Interviews, Job Announcements, London Conference 2004 (SOAS), Translation

Postdoctoral Fellow – (2400034K) Description  The Department of Translation is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow. As the first Department of Translation in Hong Kong, our programme has a long history of excellence in a variety of fields, including but not limited to translation history, translation and technology, digital humanities, translation theory, and practical translation (especially literary). The Department is also home to the

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Translational Perspectives on Corpus-based Conceptual Analysis

Events, Events, Eyewitness Reports, Film, Hacktivism, Human Rights, Interviews, Interviews, London Conference 2004 (SOAS), Translation

A webinar organized by the Genealogies of Knowledge Research Network in collaboration with the University of Oslo’s SHE Corpus team Date: 26 March 20 Time: 12:00-15:40 (UTC) Venue: Online Speakers: Dr Michael Livesey (Sheffield), Dr Kyunghye Kim (Dongguk), Dr Gabriela Saldanha (Oslo), Prof. Qing Cao (Durham) Event website: https://genealogiesofknowledge.net/research-network-events/translational-perspectives/ Registration link: https://nettskjema.no/a/477242 [nettskjema.no] About the event There is now a vast

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Important Announcement about the SISU Baker Centre

Events, Eyewitness Reports, Film, Hacktivism, Human Rights, Interviews, Interviews, London Conference 2004 (SOAS), Other News, Translation

Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to let you know that I am stepping down as Director of the SISU Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, with effect from 1 January 2025. The Centre will then cease to exist, at my request, but the individual activities undertaken under its auspices will continue to run separately

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The cinematic love letter to Cairo that none of its residents will see

Citizen Media, Culture, Egypt, Film, Khalid Abdalla, Translating Dissent

Tamer El Said’s In the Last Days of the City documents life in the Egyptian capital over 10 years, but authorities have refused him a permit to show it Ruth Michaelson, Wednesday 12 July 2017 Ask a Cairo resident to describe the most frustrating thing about living in the Egyptian capital, and they will likely tell you about the noise, the

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Filming Revolution: An Interview with Alisa Lebow

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

by Anthony Alessandrini Jadaliyya, 19 November 2015 [Alisa Lebow, a filmmaker and film scholar who teaches at the University of Sussex, is the Creator/Director/ Producer/Writer of Filming Revolution, an interactive data-base documentary archive about independent and documentary filmmaking in Egypt since the revolution, which was launched in October 2015.] Anthony Alessandrini (AA): Could you talk a bit about what made you put together

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Film review: The Square

Citizen Media, Egypt, Film, Protest Movements, Soraya Morayef, Translating Dissent

By Soraya Morayef Open Democracy, 25 March 2014 The author reviews the only documentary released to-date of the people’s uprising in Egypt until the fall of Mohamed Morsi on 3 July 2013. There is no such thing as a comprehensive narrative of the Egyptian revolution. Anyone attempting such a thing will most likely fail, as the complex evolution of a

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Egyptian citizen journalism 'Mosireen' tops YouTube

Activist Initiatives, Citizen Media, Egypt, Film, Khalid Abdalla, Omar Robert Hamilton, Translating Dissent

  Mosireen, 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

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