After the Ceasefire

  Omar Robert Hamilton   12 September 2014     On 26 August a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas was agreed, bringing a fragile end to a war that killed 2150 Palestinians (mostly civilians) and 73 Israelis (mostly soldiers). Since then Hamas has not fired a single rocket, attacked an Israeli target, or done anything to break the terms of

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The Poet Cannot Stand Aside: Arabic Literature and Exile

M. Lynx Qualey Fourteen hundred years ago and more, the poet-prince Imru’ al-Qais was banished by his father. The king exiled his son, or so the legend goes, in part because of the prince’s poetry. Thus it was that, when the king was killed by a group of his subjects, al-Qais was traveling with friends. Al-Qais returned to avenge his

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Interpreting Conflict: Training Challenges in Humanitarian Field Interpreting

Barbara Moser-Mercer, Leïla Kherbiche and Barbara Class* Journal of Human Rights Practice (2014) 6(1): 140-158. doi: 10.1093/jhuman/hut025 First published online: January 6, 2014   Abstract When communication breaks down, conflict ensues. Resolving conflicts successfully relies heavily on re-establishing communication. Almost all conflicts involve parties who do not speak the same language or share the same culture. Language is the main vehicle of communication under such difficult circumstances, and

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Drying Palestine: Israel’s Systemic Water War

Al-Shabaka Policy Brief 4 September 2014   Overview The targeting of Palestinian water infrastructure is a systemic and two-pronged Israeli policy to prevent the existence of sustainable Palestinian communities. In this policy brief, Al-Shabaka Policy Member and environmental researcher Muna Dajani builds on the evidence of Israel’s targeting of water infrastructure and shows how the policy is not only preventing

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Call for Papers: Ideological Manipulation in Audiovisual Translation

  Special Issue of Altre Modernità – Rivista di studi letterarie e culturali Some of the most crucial developments in translation studies, in the last three decades, have taken place in the field of audiovisual translation (AVT) making it rapidly gravitate from the margins to the centre of academic endeavour in translation. The initial studies on AVT tended to focus

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The Root Cause of the Never-Ending Conflict in Palestine; and How to Fix It

4 August 2014 Peter Cohen Sociologist; Jewish World War II Survivor Editor’s note: The author is a retired sociologist from the University of Amsterdam and a Jewish-Dutch World War II survivor. He does not consider the latter relevant to his view on this topic, but we found it pertinent to include. “Anti-Zionism, in fact, is the form that much of today’s

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Cosmopolitanism as Translation

Esperança Bielsa Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Published in Cultural Sociology, online before print September 2, 2014, doi:10.1177/1749975514546235   Abstract Whereas globalization theory was predominantly silent about the role of translation in making possible the flow of information worldwide, assuming instant communicability and transparency, translation has gained central importance in recent accounts of cosmopolitanism that emphasize global interdependence and the negotiation

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Egyptian citizen journalism 'Mosireen' tops YouTube

  Mosireen, a media collective responsible for collating some of the most iconic videos of the Egyptian revolution, is now one of the most popular non-profit channels in the world after just four months of being on YouTube Bel Trew, Friday 20 Jan 2012   Mosireen, an Egyptian media collective of filmmakers and citizen journalists, has become the most viewed

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Corpus-based Interpreting Studies: The State of the Art

  First Forlì International Workshop Department of Interpreting and Translation, University of Bologna Forlì, Italy, 7-8 May 2015   More than 15 years have passed since the late Miriam Shlesinger called upon the Interpreting Studies community to embrace corpus-based methodologies (Shlesinger 1998). Corpus-based methodologies enable researchers to collect empirical data in quantities large enough to make reliable generalizations about interpreter

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