Category: Translating Dissent

Toward a New Literary History

Samah Selim, Translating Dissent

Samah Selim Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.; e-mail: sselim@rci.rutgers.edu International Journal of Middle East Studies / Volume 43 / Issue 04 / November 2011, pp 734-736 Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020743811000973 (About DOI), Published online: 09 November 2011 The past twenty years witnessed a dramatic transformation in Arabic literature studies

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Literature and Revolution

Samah Selim, Translating Dissent

Samah Selim Department of African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Languages and Literatures, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J.; e-mail: sselim@rci.rutgers.edu International Journal of Middle East Studies / Volume 43 / Issue 03 / August 2011, pp 385-386 Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0020743811000456 (About DOI), Published online: 26 July 2011   The three-week uprising in Egypt that ended with the removal of

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11 Rules and 3 Award-winning Translations from Samah Selim

Articles, Culture, Egypt, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent, Translation

BY MLYNXQUALEY on MARCH 8, 2012 • ( 2 ) The “10 rules” series resumes with award-winning translator Dr. Samah Selim. Eleven Rules 1. Think about register. Every essay, novel or story projects a particular and unique language register. A really important part of translating fiction is capturing and rendering that register in English. It’s easy to fall into the trap of overly stiff or archaic prose on

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Who do stories belong to?

Articles, Culture, Egypt, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent, Translation

Samah Selim re-maps the journey of the early Arab novel Friday, March 6, 2015 By Laura Gribbon, Jadaliyya Do stories need authors? Are texts fixed? Is adaptation a form of translation? These are some of the questions Professor Samah Selim has been considering in her study of Egyptian periodical Musamarat al-Shaab (The People’s Entertainment), and she raised them during a talk at the

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Egypt and the Future of the Corporate Grid

Articles, Egypt, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent

by Samah Selim Jadaliyya, Feb 01 2011 Many analysts have been commenting on the broader significance of the astonishing and awe-inspiring events that have swept Egypt by storm over the past six days. From Tunisia to Yemen, the Arab world is in open revolt against the sclerotic, corrupt and vicious dictatorships that have held power with the tacit support of the US

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Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution

Jonathan Guyer, Translating Dissent

ICWA: Institute of Current World Affairs Jonathan Guyer has contributed a chapter to Translating Dissent: Voices from and with the Egyptian Revolution, a forthcoming book from Routledge. His chapter focuses on the translation of Arabic political cartoons. Here is Jonathan’s abstract: This chapter reflects critically on the translation of Arabic political cartoons, both in broad and narrow terms. The questions I

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A New Feminist Movement? Middle Eastern Hijabis as Superheroes

Culture, Deena Mohamed, Egypt, Translating Dissent

Aquila By Women’s Voices Now, Wednesday, 18th February 2015   In the late 1980s, feminism in the Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) context gained prominence in international debate. Research addressed “the status of women in Muslim countries through two frames: the inhibiting effects of Islam and the potential for reform through norms building.” Many contemporary scholars concluded, “Islam, specifically the prevailing

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