Language’s term for black people is outdated, say young language learners Lenard Monkman · CBC News · Posted: Jun 05, 2020 The phrase Black Lives
J. K. Rowling and the Prisoners of Israel
by OMAR ROBERT HAMILTON Counterpunch, OCTOBER 26, 2015 “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.” — J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and
Samah Selim: Interviewed by Rebecca Ruth Gould
In Full Stop: Reviews. Interviews. Marginalia May 20, 2020 Samah Selim is a scholar and translator of Arabic literature. Her translations include Arwa Salih’s The
Journal for Translation Studies in Africa
Volume 1 (2020) Open Access Editorial Translation studies in Africa: quo vadis? Carmen Delgado Luchner, Kobus Marais 1-6 PDF Articles
Assistant Professor – Faculty of Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
ACULTY OF ARTS Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies The Department was first established as the “Translation Programme” in 1990, and was awarded full
Update on Genealogies of Knowledge Project and Research Network
13 May 2020 Dear colleagues, We hope this finds you safe and well in these strange times. After four years of intense interdisciplinary collaboration and
British security company @G4S left its workers without food during the pandemic and lockdown in UAE. Nearly 1000 workers had to reach out to charities to survive. https://twitter.com/MigrantRights/status/1277915506704478208
“Even during Ramadan, no food was provided for our Muslim colleagues for their Iftar.”
While companies are not legally required to provide food to their workers, the humanitarian dimension of the situation should carry weight.
https://www.migrant-rights.org/2020/06/g4s-employees-in-uae-live-on-food-donations/
@krishgm The Treasury's objective is to get the economy going - but this is at odds with the public health goal. A key part of the solution is masks.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/17/covid-19-britain-intensive-care-economy-public-health
For a year, Syrian novelist Maha Hassan lived in the renovated apartment of Anne Frank at the Amsterdam Merwedeplein. Now, 13 years later, the book she began working on there. https://twitter.com/Almutawassitit/status/1278293264316141573
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صدرت عن #منشورات_المتوسط - إيطاليا، الرواية الجديدة للكاتبة السورية #مها_حسن، والتي جاءت بعنوان: #في_بيت_آن_فرانك. الرواية صدرت الآن في طبعتها الفلسطينية، ضمن مشروع #الأدب_أقوى بالتعاون مع الدار #الرقمية - فلسطين.
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Really pleased to have been awarded, with my @TranslateQUB colleague @PiotrBlum, a @BritishAcademy_ grant to explore the ways in which modern languages and translation studies make sense of and respond to #COVIDー19. Calls for participation to be released later in the summer.
This is heart-breaking ...
People will die within months': Lebanon heads for famine as pandemic accelerates hunger https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/people-will-die-within-months-lebanon-heads-famine-pandemic/