Dalia Abdel Hamid, Mona Baker

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

Human rights in focus: Dalia Abdel Hameed

June 4, 2015 Mona Baker Egypt, Interviews

The right to equal opportunities for women Wednesday, May 27, 2015 By Mai Shams El-Din After the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak, a group of feminist activists stood at the heart of Tahrir Square and made several demands concerning women’s rights and freedoms. They were met by insults and curses from passers-by and criticism from others, who maintained this was

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Dalia Abdel Hamid, Mai Shams El-Din, sexual violence

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