Oppression is not a point of view
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Department/ Unit: Department of Translation Closing date: October 31, 2025 Established in 1972, the Department of Translation of CUHK was the first of its kind in Asia. After years of development, it now offers a full range of BA, MA, MPhil and PhD programmes. Our faculty members are committed to excellence in
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March 13, 2025 The great twentieth-century poet Mahmoud Darwish was born on this day in 1941. Today, author-translator Alaa Alqaisi shares a letter to Darwish and a poem, after Darwish’s “In Praise of the High Shadow.” In Praise of What Is No Longer Ours By Alaa Alqaisi In ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly This poem is in response to
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آلاء القيسي This is a translation by Alaa Alqaisi of her article Translating the Unseen: Gaza’s Sky and Anne Carson’s Vision كانت البداية برسالة إلكترونية وردتني من البروفيسور جيمس هيني، أستاذ الأدب الإنجليزي والدراسات الأيرلندية في جامعة كارلو، يطلب فيها مساعدتي في ترجمة نصٍّ عربيّ لطلابه، يُفترض أن يُرافق دراستهم لكتاب Wrong Norma الذي صدر عام 2024 بقلم الشاعرة
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By Alaa Alqaisi Arab Lit & Arab Lit Quarterly February 10, 2025 It began with an email from Dr. James Heaney, a professor of English and Irish studies at Carlow University, requesting my help translating an Arabic text for his students to accompany their study of Wrong Norma, a 2024 work by Anne Carson. Carson—a poet of immense imaginative
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