Category: Egypt

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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Foundations of Solidarity: A Conversation with Yasmin El-Rifae

Activist reflections, Articles, Citizen Media, Egypt, Globalizing Dissent, Palestine, Protest Movements, Translating Dissent, Translation

June 23, 2022 By Helen Mackreath, Los Angeles Review of Books   IN THE WAKE of the intensifying resistance to the occupation of Palestine, the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States (and beyond), and such movements as #StandWithStandingRock, appeals for solidarity with the plight of migrants, occupied populations, racialized minorities, and Indigenous peoples have become culturally pervasive. This

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Passing through

Articles, Egypt

  Ahdaf Souief, London Review of Books Volume 7, No. 17, 3 October 1985 To download Arabic translation, by Abdelhamid Elewa, click here: Souief Golding Arabic translation   An Egyptian Journal , by William Golding. Faber, 207 pp., £12.95, July 1985, 0 571 13593 5   About ten years ago, on a previous visit to Egypt, William Golding arrived at ‘a simple truth:

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Coming: Launch of Translation-series Collection ‘In the Shoes of the Other’

Egypt, Events, Events, Translation

  ArabLit Quarterly NOVEMBER 12, 2019   In Cairo next month, a group of translators and translator-scholars — including Humphrey Davies, Ferial Ghazoul, and Mona Baker — will launch the collection In the Shoes of the Other: Interdisciplinary Essays in Translation Studies from Cairo, ed. Samia Mehrez:In Cairo next month, a group of translators and translator-scholars — including Humphrey Davies, Ferial Ghazoul, and

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Translating China as Cross-Identity Performance

Publications, Translation

By James St. André May 2018, 336 pages US$68 cloth   This provocative new book applies the perspective of cross-identity performance to the translation of a wide variety of Chinese texts into English and French from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Drawing on scholarship in cultural studies, queer studies, and anthropology, James St. André argues that many cross-identity performance techniques, including

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Sugar-coating Female Genital Mutilation in United Nations documents in English and Arabic

Publications, Translation

  A Diachronic Study of Lexical Variation By Yasmin Raafat This Dissertation is registered and submitted to the Faculty of Humanities (Department of Translation and Interpreting), University of the Witwatersrand, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Interpreting and translation. Supervisor: Professor Judith Inggs Johannesburg, 2017   Abstract (extract from introduction)   My struggle against FGM started around the

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Translation and the Production of Knowledge(s)

Publications, Translation

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, published by the American University in Cairo, has released its 38th issue (2018) Guest-edited by Mona Baker The point of departure for this special issue of Alif is that knowledge is “produced” rather than “discovered,” and that translation is a core mechanism for the production and circulation of all forms of knowledge. With very few exceptions, the intimate connection between

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