Interviews, Mona Baker

Samah Selim in Testimony between History and Memory

January 20, 2017 Mona Baker About, Activist reflections, Citizen Media, Egypt, Interviews, Protest Movements, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent, Translation

An interview with Samah Selim, ‘Translation, Testimony, Activism’, has appeared in the dossier on Translating Testimony in the October 2016 issue of the international journal of the Auschwitz Foundation, Testimony between History and Memory (issue No. 123), pages 143-150. The interview was conducted by Tom Toremans of KU Leuven and can be downloaded by clicking on the link below. Selim_interview History and Testimony The dossier

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Megan Berkobien on Establishing the ‘Emerging Translators Collective’

November 14, 2016 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Interviews, Translation

BY MLYNXQUALEY on NOVEMBER 4, 2016 At this year’s American Literary Translators Association conference, Megan Berkobien talked at a panel that went beyond #namethetranslators about the Emerging Translators Collective she helped found at the University of Michigan.Post-panel, she answered a few questions for ArabLit: Why “alternative and collaborative publication models” for bringing translations into English? What’s not working about the existing ones? Megan Berkobien: I knew I

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Multilingual Wordsmiths, Part 1: Lydia Davis and Translationese

May 15, 2016 Mona Baker Interviews, Translation

Liesl 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

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Interview with Philip Rizk by Shuruq Harb

September 20, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Egypt, Interviews, Philip Rizk, Protest Movements, Translating Dissent

“The revolution is not a thing of the past, the revolution is still in process.” Philip Rizk stated as we began our discussion of his text “2011 is not 1968”, whereby he challenges the dominant narratives of the January 25th Revolution as a youth lead revolution. He argues that the radicalizing factor of the uprising was an underclass without leaders.

Egyptian Graffiti and Gender Politics: An Interview with Soraya Morayef

September 4, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Egypt, Interviews, Protest Movements, Soraya Morayef, Street Art, Translating Dissent

28 March 2013, africaisacountry.com Mickey Mouse is pulling apart a bomb: inside is the torso of George W. Bush, and they’re both looking perfectly happy about the whole thing. Soraya Morayef is taking a photo of the wall where these figures are painted, on a busy street in downtown Cairo, when a man walks up to her and asks her

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Ganzeer, graffiti, Keizer, Mona Lisa Brigade, Sad Panda, Sit il-banat, Soraya Morayef, Zeft

Interview: Hoda Elsadda: Biggest conflict facing Constituent Assembly is the violent rivalry in the streets, on TV and the sharp division of society

August 31, 2015 Mona Baker Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Interviews, Translating Dissent

Daily News, 13 September 2013 Fady Ashraf Freedoms and Rights committee head in the Constituent Assembly, Hoda Elsadda, affirms that criminalisation of discrimination is a must You are known for your academic work concerning women, and your founding of (Women and Memory forum), what is the difference between academic work, since there is a belief that academic work does

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Egypt 2014 Constitution, Hoda Elsadda, military trials

Dr. Hoda El Sadda Stands Up to Sexual Harassment

August 31, 2015 Mona Baker Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Interviews, Translating Dissent

Cairo West, 6 March 2013 By Brian Wright Dr. Hoda El Sadda is a long-standing champion for women’s rights in Egypt and the Arab World, and a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cairo University. With degrees from both Cairo University and the American University, she taught Comparative Arabic Literature at Manchester University from 2005 to 2011. In the

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Brian Wright, Cairo West, Hoda Elsadda, sexual harassment

Egypt: the battle over hope and morale

August 31, 2015 Mona Baker Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Interviews, Translating Dissent

Open Democracy HODA ELSADDA 2 November 2011 The deliberate attempt to discredit women’s rights by associating them with the ex- first lady Suzanne Mubarak is a key challenge for women’s rights activists in Egypt, so too is the battle not to surrender to the prophets of doom and gloom, Hoda Elsadda tells Deniz Kandiyoti DK: As a women’s rights activist

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Hoda Elsadd, women's rights

Don’t Mess with a Hijabi: An Interview with the Creator of “Qahera”

August 25, 2015 Mona Baker Culture, Deena Mohamed, Egypt, Interviews, Translating Dissent

Muftah , September 23rd, 2013 In Muftah’s on-going podcast series, we speak with Deena Mohamed, the creator of Qahera, a hijabi super-heroine who combats Islamophobia and misogyny. Since publishing the first iteration of Qahera in June of 2013, Deena has received an overwhelmingly positive response to the comic strip, which is published in both English and Arabic. A look at some of the Qahera

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Deena Mohamed, Qahera

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