Leil Zahra-Mortada, Mona Baker

Language Gender and the Egyptian Revolution: An interactive workshop- Lancaster University

September 20, 2015 Mona Baker Activist Initiatives, Egypt, Leil-Zahra Mortada, Translating Dissent

09/06/2015, 2 PM, County Main SR5 The Arab and Muslim Worlds Research Forum invites you to: Language Gender and the Egyptian Revolution: An interactive workshop Presenter: Shaimaa El Naggar (LAEL) Discussant: Dr Shuruq Naguib (PPR) Produced in 2012, “Words of women from the Egyptian revolution” is a YouTube series about women’s engagement in the Egyptian uprisings, directed by Leil Zahra Mortada. Each YouTube video interviews women who reflect

Words of Women from the Egyptian Revolution

September 20, 2015 Mona Baker Activist Initiatives, Egypt, Leil-Zahra Mortada, Translating Dissent

Egypt Today 21 September 2013 A new project to shed light on women’s role during January 25 By Nadine El Sayed After January 25, people thought feminism will finally get its break in Egypt, only to be faced with an unrepresentative female minority in the parliament, a crackdown on women’s march last year and an overall undermining of women’s role in

Tahrir Square sexual assaults reported during anniversary clashes

September 20, 2015 Mona Baker Activist Initiatives, Articles, Egypt, Leil-Zahra Mortada, Translating Dissent

Campaigners in Egypt say at least 25 women have been assaulted as state of emergency is declared in three provinces Patrick Kingsley in Cairo Monday 28 January 2013 Amid Egypt’s ongoing civil unrest, at least 25 women have been sexually assaulted during clashes in Tahrir Square, according to local women’s rights campaigners. In a typical attack, crowds of men quickly

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Leil Zahra-Mortada, OpAntiSH, sexual harassment

Coprolalia on Syria, European pseudo-Leftists, and Žižek

September 20, 2015 Mona Baker Leil-Zahra Mortada, Translating Dissent

Posted by Leil-Zahra on 11/12/13 • Categorized as English I was a bit disappointed when I read Žižek´s article on Syria. It is true that the people in Syria have no excuse for not making a revolution, but compassion is a virtue. Maybe if “comrade” Žižek could´ve taken the time to scribble them a manual of “Revolution 101″ they could´ve been brought to their senses.

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Egypt, Leil Zahra-Mortada, Slavoj Zizek, Syria

Israel Kills People Like Me, Israel Exploits Queers Like Me

September 20, 2015 Mona Baker Leil-Zahra Mortada, Palestine, Translating Dissent

Posted by Leil-Zahra on 12/29/14 * In response to a full-page ad running this week in The New York Times funded by Rabbi Shmuley, Stand with Us, and This World (Shmuley’s own); featuring political campaigner Rennick Remely. My name is Leil-Zahra Mortada. I’m an Arab Queer person. And I support justice. If I lived in Gaza or “Israel’s neighboring states”, I would be

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Israel, Leil Zahra-Mortada, queer rights

A Conference in Cairo

June 12, 2015 Mona Baker Egypt, Events, Events, Globalizing Dissent, Translating Dissent, Translation

Yasmin El-Rifae June 12th, 2015, Muftah I walked through downtown Cairo on a quiet Friday morning in March 2015, late to a conference I had helped organize and a little bit anxious. The conference was about the political importance of translation – of language and concepts – in connecting protest movements to one another and allowing them to be narrated

Globalizing dissent, Egyptian civil society, and the limits of translation

March 15, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Egypt, Events, Events, Protest Movements, Translation

By Ahmed Refaat Mada Masr, 15 March 2015 I first heard Mona Baker two months ago in a workshop organized by the Imaginary School Program at Beirut, the art space not the city. It was called: “Prefigurative politics and creative subtitling.” During the three-hour event, Baker briefly summed up what she discusses more elaborately in her research project, “Translating the Egyptian

Leil-Zahra Mortada: OpAntiSH, the hashtag that became a movement (NPA 034.2)

March 8, 2015 Mona Baker Activist Initiatives, Citizen Media, Egypt, Leil-Zahra Mortada, Protest Movements, Translating Dissent

Published on Mar 4, 2015 Leil-Zahra Mortada talks about the problems with sexual harassment during the Egyptian Revolution, especially on Tahrir Square, and explains why they felt the need to do something about it. He confronts the problems they faced with the OpAntiSH movement.

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Egypt, Leil Zahra-Mortada, OpAntiSH, sexual violence

Israel Kills People Like Me, Israel Exploits Queers Like Me

January 4, 2015 Mona Baker Palestine

Posted by Leil-Zahra on 12/29/14 • Categorized as English * In response to a full-page ad running this week in The New York Times funded by Rabbi Shmuley, Stand with Us, and This World (Shmuley’s own); featuring political campaigner Rennick Remely. My name is Leil-Zahra Mortada. I’m an Arab Queer person. And I support justice. If I lived in Gaza or “Israel’s neighboring states”,

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The Only Thing Worth Globalizing Is Dissent: Translation and the Many Languages of Resistance

September 2, 2014 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Events, Translation

A three-day conference to be held in Cairo, 6-8 March 2015 Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK Organized by Mona Baker, Yasmin El Rifae, and Mada Masr http://globalizingdissent.wordpress.com Activists from various regions and countries connect with and influence one another through practices involving various types of translation, including video subtitling, written translation, and oral interpretation. The Egyptian Revolution and the activists and