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Mada Masr was formed just before military coup of 2013. Amid growing censorship, its staff have risked their lives to continue reporting. Can they stay true to their mission? Leslie T Chang Tuesday 27 January 2015 On the afternoon of 17 June 2013, a group of friends gathered in a fourth-floor apartment in downtown Cairo. They sat on the floor

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Then and now: The singer, the graffiti artists and the writer

    Cultural producers who gained fame after the revolution Sunday, January 25, 2015 – 09:53 By: Rowan El Shimi; Laura Gribbon; Amany Ali Shawky We take a look at the trajectories of four cultural producers who gained fame during or after the January 25 revolution and find out what they’re doing now. Youssra El Hawary (by Rowan El Shimi) The first time I saw Youssra El Hawary

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Revolution and Despair

Asef Bayat    Sunday, January 25, 2015 Things in the Middle East usually appear far worse than they really are when looked at from the outside. But  on my recent visit to Egypt — as I talked and listened to people, watched local television, read daily papers and made observations  — it became clear that revolutionaries were going through painful

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Unauthorized memory

Sunday, January 25, 2015 Yasmin El-Rifae   Yesterday they shot and killed a woman on Talaat Harb Street. She was walking, along with other members of the Socialist Alliance Party, through downtown to commemorate those killed since all of this started four years ago. Many of them were carrying flowers, wreaths to lay in Tahrir. Photos of Shaimaa Sabbagh in

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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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Researching Translation and Interpreting

Edited by Claudia V. Angelelli, Brian James Baer Routledge – 2015 – 288 pages Paperback:  $39.95 978-0-415-73254-3 April 30th 2015 Available for pre-order Hardback:  $150.00 978-0-415-73253-6 April 30th 2015 Available for pre-order   This volume offers a comprehensive view of current research directions in Translation and Interpreting Studies, outlining the theoretical concepts underpinning that research and presenting detailed discussions of the various methods used.

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A lonely fight defending Egypt's jailed dissidents

By HAMZA HENDAWIPublished: Dec 14, 2014 CAIRO (AP) – When a group of activists is arrested in Egypt, the call for help goes most often to lawyer Ragia Omran. She then starts a long trek through police stations and prosecutors’ offices, trying to get their release or at least some respect for their rights. It’s a lonely, grueling struggle, and

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Multilingualism at the cinema and on stage: A translation perspective

    Linguistica Antverpiensia, No 13 (2014) Multilingualism at the cinema and on stage: A translation perspective Adriana Şerban & Reine Meylaerts Table of Contents Introduction Introduction PDF Reine Meylaerts, Adriana Şerban Articles La parole aux images, ou Multilinguisme et traduction dans les films de John McTiernan PDF Sylvain Agiboust Narratives of Translation and Belonging in Multilingual Performance: The Case Study of

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Egypt’s 1984

  OCTOBER 28, 2014    Sharif Abdel Kouddous  عربي In a bid to stamp out any last vestiges of revolutionary fervor and hold at bay the threat of collective empowerment, the Sisi regime has taken concrete steps to quash dissent, silence opposition voices, and consolidate control over the body politic. Under the guise of a war on terror and restoring

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Radwa Ashour obituary

Courageous Egyptian writer, academic and translator known for her Granada trilogy Marina Warner Monday 8 December 2014 Radwa Ashour was a powerful voice among Egyptian writers of the postwar generation and a writer of exceptional integrity and courage. Her work consistently engages with her country’s history and reflects passionately upon it. “I am an Arab woman and a citizen of

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