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Special Issue: Women, Culture, and the January 2011 Egyptian Revolution

May 14, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Egypt, Protest Movements, Publications

Special Issue for Journal of Cultural Research Volume 19, Issue 2, 2015 Foreword Anastasia Valassopoulos pages 115-116 Acknowledgements page 117 Introduction: Egyptian women, revolution, and protest culture Dalia Said Mostafa pages 118-129 Action, imagination, institution, natality, revolution Ziad Elmarsafy pages 130-138 Egypt’s revolution, our revolution: revolutionary women and the transnational avant-garde Caroline Rooney pages 139-149 Inserting women’s rights in

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Dalia Mostafa, Egyptian Revolution, gender, women

Special Issue: The Gender and Queer Politics of Translation: Literary, Historical, and Cultural Approaches

May 14, 2015 Mona Baker Publications, Translation

Special Issue of Comparative Literature Studies Volume 51, Number 2, 2014 Guest Editor: William J. Spurlin Introduction The Gender and Queer Politics of Translation: New Approaches pp. 201-214 William J. Spurlin Articles A Queer and Embodied Translation: Ethics of Difference and Erotics of Distance pp. 215-230 Aarón Lacayo “Homme” peut-il vouloir dire “Femme”?: Gender and Translation in Seventeenth-Century French Moral

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Comparative Literature Studies, gay, LGBT, queer, sexuality, William J. Spurlin

On translating Arwa Saleh, ‘Looking for a Trace of the Present in a Trace of the Past’

April 24, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Articles, Egypt, Samah Selim, Translating Dissent, Translation

BY MLYNXQUALEY on APRIL 20, 2015 Samah Selim spoke at Cairo University last Thursday, at a talk moderated by Nada Abdel Sobhi, on “Why We Transate: Some Notes on Love, Loss, and Longing.” Mona Elnamoury was there: By Mona Elnamoury In her talk at Cairo University last Thursday, Samah Selim charmed the audience with her hearty genuine talk about translation and love. Selim

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Arabic, Arabic Literature, Arwa Saleh, Mona Elnamoury, Samah Selim

Ethics of Renarration

April 17, 2015 Mona Baker Baker Talks and Interviews, Interviews, Mona Baker, Translating Dissent, Translation

Mona Baker is interviewed by Andrew Chesterman 2008. Cultus 1(1): 10-33. Click on the link below to download a copy of the interview. Baker Ethics of Renarration 2008 Chesterman: Your recent book Translation and Conflict. A Narrative Account (2006a) raises some interesting and important issues concerning the practice and ethics of translation and interpreting. You argue that translation is especially significant

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Andrew Chesterman, Cultus, ethics, Mona Baker, narrative theory

Overview of L'Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze, avec Claire Parnet

April 15, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Publications, Publications, Translation

Gilles Deleuze’s ABC Primer, with Claire Parnet, Directed by Pierre-André Boutang (1996) Full reference to published set of DVDs: Deleuze, Giles (1996/2011) Gilles Deleuze from A-Z, with Claire Parnet, directed by Pierre-André Boutang, translated by Charles J. Stivale, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Overview prepared by Charles J. Stivale, Romance Languages & Literatures, Wayne

NEFERTITI'S DAUGHTERS (Sneak Preview #1)

April 12, 2015 Mona Baker Activist Initiatives, Bahia Shehab, Citizen Media, Egypt, Street Art, Translating Dissent

Preview of Mark Nickolas documentary film Nefertiti’s Daughters, featuring some of the most interesting street artists in Egypt. LOG LINE: Queen Nefertiti returns to join revolutionary street artists on the front lines in the fight for women’s rights and freedom in Egypt. SYNOPSIS: Nefertiti’s Daughters is a story of women, art and revolution. Told by prominent Egyptian artists, this documentary witnesses the

THE DISCOURSE OF ARABIC ADVERTISING: PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS

April 8, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Culture, Egypt

Adrian Gully Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Volume 1, 1996-97, pp. 1-49 This article explores the discourse of commercial consumer advertising in the written and visual media of Egypt. After setting advertisements in the context of genres and schemas, it focuses mainly on the relationship between language and cultural representation within the discourse of advertising. The paper places special

Max Strasser on Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story

April 3, 2015 Mona Baker Egypt, Publications

When the Sun Falls over Tahrir 28 March 2015 SOMETIME IN THE SUMMER of 2011, I was sitting with a few friends at a café on the edge of a cliff overlooking Cairo. We were smoking shisha and drinking tea and beer, watching the sun set over the taupe tableau when we spotted two tall, blond men on the other side of

Changes in the media system after the Arab revolts: New research directions

March 28, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Journalism, Citizen Media, Egypt, Publications

Troisième série | n° 12 /// 2015 Evolution des systèmes médiatiques après les révoltes arabes Nouvelles directions de recherche Changes in the media system after the Arab revolts: New research directions Sous la direction de Enrico De Angelis The Arab revolts have forced us to re-evaluate our theoretical approaches and many of our assumptions on the role of media in the Arab region. In fact,

PARADOXES OF ARAB REFO-LUTIONS

March 28, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Egypt, Protest Movements

by Asef Bayat Mar 03 2011 Serious concerns are expressed currently in Tunisia and Egypt about the sabotage of the defeated elites. Many in the revolutionary and pro-democracy circles speak of a creeping counter-revolution. This is not surprising. If revolutions are about intense struggle for a profound change, then any revolution should expect a counterrevolution of subtle or blatant forms. The

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Arab revolutions, Asef Bayat, refo-lutions

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