Category: Translation

Call for Participants – International Writing Workshops in Jordan for Translation Studies

Competitions and Awards, Events, Translation

Applications are open for a programme to support early-career scholars working in Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria or Iraq to publish an academic article in an international journal in the discipline of translation studies. Over two workshops, participants will receive intensive training on key skills for publishing in leading journals as well as broader academic skills. They will also receive individual

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Perspectives on Contemporary Translation Roles

Baker Talks and Interviews, Translation

Anwaar, 17 February 2026 Interview, following on from the 8th conference of the International Association for Translation & Intercultural Studies, held in Muscat, Oman in December 2025   Professor Mona Baker, founder and former Director of the Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, is a leading scholar in translation and intercultural studies. Her work

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Postdoctoral Fellow – Chinese University of Hong Kong

Job Announcements, Translation

Postdoctoral Fellow – (250001Z6) Description The Department of Translation is recruiting a Postdoctoral Fellow. As the first Department of Translation in Hong Kong, our programme has a long history of excellence in a variety of fields, including but not limited to translation history, translation and technology, digital humanities, translation theory, and practical translation (especially literary). The Department is also home

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New Poetry after Darwish: ‘In Praise of What Is No Longer Ours’

Articles, Culture, Palestine, Poetry, Translation

  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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ترجمة ما لا يُرى: سماء غزّة في أفق آن كارسون

Articles, Culture, Palestine, Translation

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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Encounters in Translation: Funding Model and Support

Other News, Translation

Encounters Funding Model  Public funding, logistical support, and individual donations allow Encounters in translation to adopt a sustainable approach to editing and publishing and to break away from the increased commodification of academic work in the publishing industry, the outsourcing of production services, and the redirection of the costs of production to authors who wish to publish open access. Encounters in translation thus aims to

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Modernity in Translation: Special Issue

Call for Papers, Translation

Special Issue of Encounters in Translation Deadline Extended to 31 July 2025 Guest editors Professor Mustafa Riad, Ain Shams University, Egypt Professor Tarek Shamma, Binghamton University, New York, USA Languages of submission Proposals may be submitted in French or English. Submissions in other languages may also be considered, subject to confirmation by the editors. Modernity in translation Translation throughout history

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