Educational Toll of Gaza War: At Least 3 Universities, 148 Schools

  Rasha Faek, Yousef Al-Helou and Thaer Thabet / 03 Aug 2014 GAZA—At least three universities, seven United Nations schools and an estimated 141 locally-run schools have suffered severe damage in the month-long war between Israel and Hamas. Israeli missiles hit the Islamic University of Gaza early on Saturday, destroying a major building on the campus but apparently not killing anyone. In a July

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Is Egypt on the Verge of Another Uprising?

  THANASSIS CAMBANIS, JAN 16 2015 CAIRO—Four years after the revolution he helped lead, Basem Kamel has noticeably scaled back his ambitions. The regime he and his friends thought they overthrew after storming Tahrir Square has returned. In the face of relentless pressure and violence from the authorities, most of the revolutionary movements have been sidelined or snuffed out. Egypt’s new

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The Limits of Satire

  Tim Parks The New York Review of Books   What does satire do? What should we expect of it? Recent events in Paris inevitably prompt these questions. In particular, is the kind of satire that Charlie Hebdo has made its trademark—explicit, sometimes obscene images of religious figures (God the father, Son, and Holy Spirit sodomizing each other; Muhammad with a yellow

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Lecturer/Associate Professor in Interpreting

University of Leeds – Faculty of Arts Location: Leeds Salary: £38,511 to £54,841 Hours: Full Time Contract Type: Permanent Placed on: 5th January 2015 Closes: 20th January 2015 Job Ref: ARTLC1010   Available from 1 June 2015 Principal responsibilities will include convening and delivering teaching on a number of postgraduate modules which provide professional preparation for trainee interpreters. In addition, you

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Conflicted Bodies: Corp_Real International Symposium

@ Galway Dance Days Festival 2015 March 27-29 2015 NUI Galway & locations in Galway  CONFLICTED BODIES  Call for Submissions What is the impact on the body (and dance/performance) of living in conflict environments? What impact can dance/performance have in changing such circumstances?  Art about, of and against conflict has always existed, but it is only recently that recognition has

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Project Narrative Summer Institute: June 8-June 19, 2015

The Project Narrative Summer Institute (PNSI) is a two-week workshop at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH that offers faculty and advanced graduate students in any discipline, from institutions worldwide, the opportunity for an intensive study of core concepts and issues in narrative theory. This summer’s PNSI will run from June 8 to June 19, 2015, led by Project Narrative core faculty James Phelan and Angus Fletcher, with

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Asfari Foundation 2015/2016 Masters Scholarships (inc T&I)

Scholarships are available for the 2015/2016 academic year for eligible Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese applicants for selected taught Master’s degrees at four UK partner universities. Each scholarship includes full tuition fees and a stipend to cover accommodation and living costs. If necessary, the cost of travel to the UK will also be covered. The scholarship will be tenable for one academic year.

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The First International Conference on “Translation and Interpreting: New Voices on the Marketplace

16-18 April 2015 Call for Papers Abstract submission deadline: 28 February 2015 Translation and Interpreting Studies have always been at the crossroads of research and practice. Professional practice is both the starting point and the endpoint of the different approaches in this discipline. Higher education curriculums are increasingly required to strike a balance between ‘learning’ and ‘earning,’ hence the need for

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Translating ‘Sustainability’ in Hawai'i: The Utility of Semiotic Transformation in the Transmission of Culture

DOI: 10.1080/14442213.2014.954601 The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, Volume 16, Issue 1, 2015, pages 55-73 Kyung-Nan Koh Abstract This paper examines how businessmen and educators in Hawai’i have semiotically ‘translated’ sustainability to promote sustainability practices. Using data gathered from an educational institute that was co-founded by a corporation and a college, I analyse how the source discourse was, using Silverstein’s term, ‘transformed’ so

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Why Interculturalidad is not Interculturality

Colonial remains and paradoxes in translation between indigenous social movements and supranational bodies DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2014.899379 Robert Aman, Cultural Studies, Volume 29, Issue 2, 2015, pages 205-228   Abstract Interculturality is a notion that has come to dominate the debate on cultural diversity among supranational bodies such as the European Union (EU) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in

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