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Palestine: A Nation of Translators

January 27, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Culture, Palestine, Translation

Monday, 26 January 2015 by Mahmoud Al-Hirthani One field in which Palestinian intellectuals and writers have invested heavily, particularly since the Nakba in 1948, is translation. Interestingly, translating from Russian preceded translation from English due to the early exposure of Palestinian intellectuals to Russian literature, disseminated in Palestine via Russian schools and missionaries during the 19th century. Translation from English started to

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history of translation, Mahmoud Al-Hirthani, Palestine

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

January 27, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Culture, Egypt, Street Art

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

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

January 21, 2015 Mona Baker Education, Palestine

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

Israel Kills People Like Me, Israel Exploits Queers Like Me

January 4, 2015 Mona Baker Palestine

Posted by Leil-Zahra on 12/29/14 • Categorized as English * In response to a full-page ad running this week in The New York Times funded by Rabbi Shmuley, Stand with Us, and This World (Shmuley’s own); featuring political campaigner Rennick Remely. My name is Leil-Zahra Mortada. I’m an Arab Queer person. And I support justice. If I lived in Gaza or “Israel’s neighboring states”,

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gay, Gaza, Hamas, Iran, Israel, Jerusalem Gay Pride, Leil Zahra-Mortada, LGBT, queer

Radwa Ashour obituary

December 14, 2014 Mona Baker Culture, Egypt

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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Marina Warner, Mourid Barghouti, Radwa Ashour, Tamim Barghouti

Arab Comics: Fit for Academic Exploration

November 26, 2014 Mona Baker Culture, Egypt, Soraya Morayef, Translating Dissent

Soraya Morayef / 18 Nov 2014 Comic magazines Samir, Lulu and Mickey Geeb (Pocket-sized Mickey) and Arabic translations of Tintin, Superman and Asterix and Obelix have been read and loved by generations of Arabs. Editorial cartoons are fundamental parts of every daily newspaper. But comic art remains an often unexamined and under-supported part of Arab artistic effort. A new initiative is intent on changing that. In September, the American

Egypt’s Long History of Activist Artists

November 2, 2014 Mona Baker Culture, Egypt

By: Sultan Al Qassemi 31 October 2014 Egyptian artists were deeply involved in spearheading, capturing, and influencing the January 2011 uprising. In fact, the artistic community lost one of its own when 32-year-old Ahmed Bassiouny died in the early days of the uprising while taking part in the protests. For four days, the contemporary digital artist and experimental musician documented the protests in

The mysterious fall and rise of the Arab crime novel

October 6, 2014 Mona Baker Culture, Egypt

Marcia Lynx Qualey Last updated: 28 September 2014 Why are gentleman-thieves and murder mysteries making a comeback in Arabic popular fiction? When Egyptian novelist and photographer Ahmed Mourad was asked earlier this year, why so few Egyptians were writing crime novels, he said that the genre was new, “and anything new is usually accompanied by a lot of attack and criticism”. Then

The Arab whodunnit: crime fiction makes a comeback in the Middle East

October 3, 2014 Mona Baker Culture, Egypt, Jonathan Guyer, Translating Dissent

The neo-noir revolution in the Arab world might be seen as nostalgic, but it allows writers to act as ombudsmen in the current political climate Jonathan Guyer Friday 3 October 2014 From Baghdad to Cairo, a neo-noir revolution has been creeping across the Middle East. The revival of crime fiction since the upheavals started in 2011 should not come

As the Arabs see the Jews

September 23, 2014 Mona Baker Palestine

A fascinating declaration made in November 1947 by the late King Abdullah bin al-Hussein on the issue of Palestine. With thanks to Farhad Diba “As the Arabs see the Jews” His Majesty King Abdullah, The American Magazine November, 1947 Summary This fascinating essay, written by King Hussein’s grandfather King Abdullah, appeared in the United States six months before the 1948 Arab-Israeli

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1948, Farhad Diba, Israel, King Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, media bias, Zionism

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