Category: Human Rights

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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Freed Egyptian Protester Describes Ordeal, but Fate of Seized Blogger Is Unknown

Egypt, Human Rights, Palestine, Philip Rizk, Police Brutality, Translating Dissent

By MICHAEL SLACKMAN FEB. 11, 2009, The New York Times CAIRO — For more than four straight days, Philip Rizk said, he was blindfolded, handcuffed and interrogated around the clock by Egyptian state security agents who abducted him on Friday after he took part in a march in support of Gaza. Early Wednesday morning, with neither warning nor explanation, he was

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Those who believe in freedom: Yara Sallam

Egypt, Egypt Solidarity, Human Rights

Open Democracy NELLY BASSILY 23 July 2015 Yara Sallam is starting the second year of her sentence in Qanater Women’s prison outside Cairo. She says, “I do not feel any regret or self-defeat, the prison is not inside me.”   Yara Sallam is starting her second year of detention in an Egyptian prison. No mother ever wants to see her child in

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Angels caught in a tightening noose

Articles, Citizen Media, Egypt, Human Rights, Soraya Morayef, Street Art, Translating Dissent

By Soraya Morayef Open Democracy, 13 November 2013 Many disregard the recurrent stories of prison deaths, police torture and rape because – on the other hand – Egypt’s streets are empty after curfew and the walls are freshly painted; surely a clear indication that the state has succeeded in restoring security and defeating terrorism. On Tuesday November 5, Egypt’s Minister

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Deaths without dignity

Activist reflections, Egypt, Human Rights, Police Brutality, Sherief Gaber, Translating Dissent

21 August 2013, Mada Masr By Sherief Gaber   “You want to see the bodies? Ok then, here!” the man working at the morgue said, holding me and a friend by the arm and practically pushing us into a humid room filled with bodies, lying on slabs or on the floor and in various states of decay. We had been

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Human rights in focus: A series of conversations

Egypt, Human Rights

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 – 13:42 By: Mai Shams El-Din, Mada Masr اقرأها بالعربية This is an introduction to a series of interviews by Mada Masr with human rights workers in Egypt that attempts to situate the struggle for rights within the context of a larger movement and the contest over political space. Many human rights workers have felt targeted by the

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The prison in us

Articles, Egypt, Human Rights, Police Brutality

Alia Mossallam  Mada Masr, Wednesday, September 17, 2014 About a month ago I went to visit a friend in prison. It doesn’t matter who he or she was, since there are now hundreds of young men and women in Egypt’s prisons because of the new Protest Law. The prisons are full to the brim with teenagers, students, fathers, brothers, daughters and

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