PalFest, Mona Baker

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

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