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The Intellectual and the People in Egyptian Literature and Culture

February 27, 2015 Mona Baker Egypt, Publications

Amāra and the 2011 Revolution Ayman A. El-Desouky Hardcover (160 pages) £45.00 + delivery Permissions Request Libraries – add to your ebook collection on Palgrave Connect ISBN 9781137392435 Publication Date November 2014 Formats Hardcover Ebook (EPUB) Ebook (PDF) Publisher Palgrave Pivot The challenges of social cohesion and the radical possibilities of solidaristic action are among the most pressing issues on the global scene today. The Intellectual and

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Amara, Ayman A. El-Desouky, Intellectuals, Literature, Solidarity

Interview with Catherine Porter and Sandra Bermann

February 27, 2015 Mona Baker Publications, Translation

By: Eric Becker Published on January 6, 2015 Recently, I had the privilege to talk with Catherine Porter and Sandra Bermann about the release of their new book, A Companion to Translation Studies. Their book features 45 essays from leading translators, including the late Michael Henry Heim, that range from high-level investigations of the art to inquiries on specific quandaries facing the translator. With this new

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Catherine Porter, Sandra Bermann

The prison in us

February 21, 2015 Mona Baker 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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Alaa Abd el-Fattah, Alia Mossallam, prison, Sanaa Seif, torture

Update: Egypt confiscates revolution-time graffiti book for “instigating revolt”

February 18, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Citizen Media, Egypt, Street Art

Egypt Independent Mohamed Mostafa Egypt’s customs services in Alexandria have seized 400 copies of “Walls of Freedom”, a book depicting Egypt’s street graffitti art in the context of the 2011 uprising, for “instigating revolt,” says the Finance Ministry. Ahmed al-Sayyad, the ministry’s undersecretary, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the book contains elements that give “advice on confronting police and army forces,”

Shimaa ElSabbagh in art

February 8, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Egypt

Posted on Saturday, 7 February, 2015 by amroali I have been absolutely gutted since Shimaa ELSabbagh was killed by security forces two weeks ago as she headed to Tahrir Square to lay flowers on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. While I never personally knew Shimaa, we shared numerous common friends who have been in tears and heartache since that

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Amro Ali, Khalid Said, Mina Danial, Omar Salah, Shaimaa El Sabagh, Sondos

Art and revolution

February 5, 2015 Mona Baker Egypt, Interviews, Omar Robert Hamilton, Translating Dissent

on 07 Novembre 2014. Interview with OMAR ROBERT HAMILTON (MOSIREEN COLLECTIVE) – by SARA MARCHESI and DUCCIO SCOTINI “We trust to each other’s strength. Or we did. And we were strong, undefeatable, once. Now, more than ever, we must find that strength, that trust. If you ever saw hope in this revolution, if you ever gave someone a cigarette on a

Egypt: after the revolution comes the battle for language

February 5, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Articles, Egypt, Translation

What do words such as ‘freedom’ or ‘coup’ mean in Egypt today? One artist is collecting definitions from across a divided nation Patrick Kingsley Cairo Friday 18 July 2014 as it a coup? Was it a revolution? The overthrow of Mohamed Morsi last July spawned unending debate in Egypt about how the president’s removal should be defined. Not that this was unusual:

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Amira Hanafi

‘Dictionary of the Revolution': Defining Words in Flux

February 5, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Articles, Egypt, Translation

BY MLYNXQUALEY on FEBRUARY 4, 2015 On January 31st, A Dictionary of the Revolution launched a kickstarter to boost the project toward its final phase: This fund-raising campaign is focused on building the dictionary a digital text and sound archive for the material that Amira Hanafi and her team have collected in the past year. Through one-on-one interviews, leaping off from particular hot-button words, “A Dictionary of the Revolution makes space for viewpoints that

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Amira Hanafi

Cairo: September 2014

January 31, 2015 Mona Baker Activist reflections, Egypt, Translating Dissent, Wiam El-Tamami

WIAM EL-TAMAMI 28 JANUARY 2015 I left Cairo on 19 April 2014. I was so glad to have left, so relieved and slightly disbelieving that I had finally loosened myself from the grip of Al-Qaahira – in Arabic the name, quite fittingly, means ‘The Oppressor’, ‘The Crusher’, ‘The Vanquisheress’. I knew that I could not be there then, but that I was

Is Cairene Graffiti Losing Momentum?

January 27, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Citizen Media, Culture, Egypt, Street Art

By Mona Abaza, 25 January 2015 Clearly Cairene graffiti has lost momentum during this year. Having been the faithful barometer of the revolution over the past three years, graffiti has recently faced transmutations and drawbacks that run parallel with the political process of restoring “order” in the street. The heartbreaking story of the recent death of a cheerful and bright

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