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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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The Egyptian Military in Popular Culture: Context and Critique

January 14, 2017 Mona Baker Culture, Egypt

Dalia Mostafa, Palsgrave Macmillan, 2017 ebook £52.99, ISBN 978-1-137-59372-6 Hardcover £66.99, ISBN 978-1-137-59371-9 This book examines a key question through the lens of popular culture: Why did the Egyptian people opt to elect in June 2014 a new president (Abdel Fattah al-Sisi), who hails from the military establishment, after toppling a previous military dictator (Hosni Mubarak) with the breakout of the

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Life after the Squares: Reflections on the consequences of the Occupy movements

January 8, 2017 Mona Baker About, Activist reflections, Citizen Media, Egypt, Hoda Elsadda, Protest Movements, Translating Dissent, Wiam El-Tamami

Social Movement Studies Volume 16, 2017 – Issue 1: Special Issue: Resisting Austerity: Collective Action in Europe in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis Editors: Cristina Flesher Fominaya & Graeme Hayes This section: Edited by Amador Fernández-Savater, Cristina Flesher Fominaya, With contributions by Luhuna Carvalho, Çiğdem, Hoda Elsadda, Wiam El-Tamami, Patricia Horrillo, Silvia Nanclares & Stavros Stavrides Pages 119-151 Abstract This is a roundtable with reflections on Tahrir Square, Egypt;

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Interpreting in conflict situations and in conflict zones throughout history

January 7, 2017 Mona Baker Publications, Translation

Linguistica Antverpiensia No 15 (2016) Interpreting in conflict situations and in conflict zones throughout history Lucía Ruiz Rosendo & Clementina Persaud Table of Contents Introduction Interpreters and interpreting in conflict zones and scenarios: A historical perspective Lucía Ruiz Rosendo, Clementina Persaud PDF Articles Have faith in your vocabulary. The role of the interpreter in the conquest of power, language and

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What Standing Rock can tell Tahrir

January 3, 2017 Mona Baker Activist reflections, Egypt

Mada Masr, Sharif Abdel Kaddous, 2 January 2017 North Dakota, US — The main highway from Bismarck, North Dakota to the Standing Rock Sioux reservation has been closed off by police for months, leaving a narrower, more circuitous route as the only way in. The hour-long drive passes through miles of rolling prairie land, vast and empty except for the

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Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics

December 24, 2016 Mona Baker Publications, Translation

Free access book, by Silvia Hansen-Schirra Sambor Grucza Synopsis Eyetracking has become a powerful tool in scientific research and has finally found its way into disciplines such as applied linguistics and translation studies, paving the way for new insights and challenges in these fields. The aim of the first International Conference on Eyetracking and Applied Linguistics (ICEAL) was to bring

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Paradoxical truths of an isolationist empire

November 18, 2016 Mona Baker Activist reflections, Egypt, Omar Robert Hamilton, Translating Dissent

Omar Robert Hamilton Mada Masr, November 17, 2016 In the photograph, I’m wearing a gas mask and 3D glasses that I knew, if it came down to it, would not protect my eyes from the police’s buckshot. My mother is next to me, we’re riding the elevator in her building, going down to Tahrir. The police had attacked a protest

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Khalid Abdalla: 'I didn't have the right to play Arab roles unless I had lived the struggle'

November 17, 2016 Mona Baker Activist reflections, Egypt, Khalid Abdalla, Translating Dissent

The Kite Runner actor is also an activist involved in documenting Egypt’s uprising and subsequent collapse. So why has the Cairo premiere of his new film been called off? For Khalid Abdalla, the boundary between life and art has repeatedly blurred and shifted over the past six years. The actor, best known for his roles in films such as The Kite

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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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THE LIGHT

November 1, 2016 Mona Baker Activist reflections, Citizen Media, Egypt, Protest Movements

By Hisham Matar The New Yorker, 12 September 2011 There is an hour in the Arab Mediterranean when the sun, as if in a state of indecision, hovers a palm’s length above the horizon. What a few hours earlier was a blinding star is now weak enough to look at directly. Its sideways light holds everything in a soft orange

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