Events, Mona Baker

Coming: Launch of Translation-series Collection ‘In the Shoes of the Other’

May 9, 2020 Mona Baker Egypt, Events, Events, Translation

ArabLit Quarterly NOVEMBER 12, 2019 In Cairo next month, a group of translators and translator-scholars — including Humphrey Davies, Ferial Ghazoul, and Mona Baker — will launch the collection In the Shoes of the Other: Interdisciplinary Essays in Translation Studies from Cairo, ed. Samia Mehrez:In Cairo next month, a group of translators and translator-scholars — including Humphrey Davies, Ferial Ghazoul, and

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The Conditions of Possibility: Democracy, Security, and Futurity in Post-Coup Cairo

April 20, 2017 Mona Baker Activist Initiatives, Citizen Media, Egypt, Events, Events, Protest Movements

Dr. Ian Alan Paul (Al-Quds Bard College, Abu Dis, Palestine) 9 June 2017 Martin Harris Building – JOHN CASKEN THEATRE The University of Manchester 14:00-16:00 Ian Alan Paul is a transdisciplinary artist, theorist, and curator. His practice encompasses experimental documentary, critical fiction, and media art, aiming to produce novel conditions for the exploration of contemporary politics and aesthetics in

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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

Pedagogies of Revolt: Translating Egypt in Flux

March 20, 2015 Mona Baker Egypt, Events, Events, Translation

26 March 2015 Salle des thèses Bernard Maris, Espace Deleuze Université Paris 8 – Vincennes-Saint-Denis One of the most remarkable accomplishments of the revolutionary spirit in Egypt since January 2011 has manifested itself in an unprecedented production and proliferation of cultural materials, whether written, oral, visual, or performative, all of which have decidedly remapped and redefined not just the contours

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

Coming: Launch of Translation-series Collection ‘In the Shoes of the Other’

The Conditions of Possibility: Democracy, Security, and Futurity in Post-Coup Cairo

A Conference in Cairo

Pedagogies of Revolt: Translating Egypt in Flux

Globalizing dissent, Egyptian civil society, and the limits of translation

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