About, Mona Baker

Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution

September 19, 2017 Mona Baker About, Translating Dissent

To order a copy, go to https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138929876 Published 2016, by Routledge Discursive interventions in the political arena are heavily mediated by various acts of translation that enable protest movements to connect across the globe. Focusing on the Egyptian experience since 2011, this volume brings together a unique group of activists who are able to reflect on the complexities, challenges and limitations

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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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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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"مصرية تفوز بلقب "عالمة اللغويات للعام

January 13, 2016 Mona Baker About, Competitions and Awards, Translating Dissent, Translation

ابوظبي – سكاي نيوز عربية فازت المصرية منى بيكر، الثلاثاء، بلقب “عالمة اللغويات” لعام 2016 عن مجموعة مقالات “ترجمة المعارضة: أصوات من ومع الثورة المصرية”، التي تناولت فيها أهمية الترجمة في الوقت الحاضر واختار قراء نشرة الأخبار اليومية لعلوم الترجمة واللغويات “إنترانيوز” بيكر التي تحمل أيضا الجنسية البريطانية، وتعمل أستاذة دراسات الترجمة بمركز الترجمة والدراسات الثقافية في جامعة مانشستر بإنجلترا

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Inttranews, Mona Baker

"2016 فوز الأستاذة الجامعية منى بيكر بلقب "عالمة اللغويات للعام

January 13, 2016 Mona Baker About, Competitions and Awards, Translating Dissent, Translation

Tue Jan 12, 2016 9:30pm GMT رويترز – اختار قراء نشرة الأخبار اليومية لعلوم الترجمة واللغويات (إنترانيوز) الأستاذة الجامعية منى بيكر المصرية البريطانية للقب “عالمة اللغويات للعام” 2016 عن مجموعة مقالات (ترجمة المعارضة: أصوات من ومع الثورة المصرية) التي تناولت فيها أهمية الترجمة في الوقت الحاضر وبيكر هي أستاذة دراسات الترجمة بمركز الترجمة والدراسات الثقافية في جامعة مانشستر بانجلترا وأفاد

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Professor Mona Baker et al elected Inttranews “Linguists of the Year” for 2016

January 13, 2016 Mona Baker About, Competitions and Awards, Translating Dissent, Translation

Kontax Release Date | 2016-01-12 Professor Mona Baker et al have been elected by the readers of Inttranews as their “Linguists of the Year” for 2016, for “Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution”. Professor Mona Baker et al have been elected by the readers of Inttranews as their “Linguists of the Year” for 2016, for “Translating Dissent: Voices from

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Inttranews, Mona Baker

Acknowledgements (Translating Dissent)

August 10, 2015 Mona Baker About, Publications, Translating Dissent, Translation

Despite having edited numerous books and journal issues over the past 20 years, I found this volume exceptionally challenging. The ups and downs, the uncertainty, and the upheaval that characterized the political landscape in which it was conceived permeated every aspect of the project: from persuading activists with more pressing concerns to invest in reflecting and writing about a relevant aspect of their experience, to

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Endorsements for Translating Dissent

August 10, 2015 Mona Baker About, Publications, Translating Dissent, Translation

Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution Edited by Mona Baker This is a volume of uncommon urgency, intellectual range, and political importance. Translation, which occupies the crossing point of discourse and power and which affects all networks of word, image and sound, must now stand near the centre of any study of global activism. The richly diverse

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In memoriam: Radwa Ashour, Egyptian novelist

June 20, 2015 Mona Baker About, Culture, Egypt, Translating Dissent

Publishing house Shorouk marks birth anniversary of Egyptian novelist and critic Radwa Ashour by reissuing five of her books. 2015/06/12 Issue: 9 Page: 21 The Arab Weekly Mona Anis The publishing house Shorouk marked the anniversary of the birth of Egyptian novelist and critic Radwa Ashour by reissuing five of her books. Ashour’s death last December created waves of sadness

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Mona Anis, Mourid Barghouti, Palestine, Radwa Ashour, Tamim Barghouti