Oppression is not a point of view
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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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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By Alaa Alqaisi Arab Lit & Arab Lit Quarterly February 10, 2025 It began with an email from Dr. James Heaney, a professor of English and Irish studies at Carlow University, requesting my help translating an Arabic text for his students to accompany their study of Wrong Norma, a 2024 work by Anne Carson. Carson—a poet of immense imaginative
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Khadidja Merakchi Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University March 25, 2025 I recently finished a revision of the Arabic translation of guidelines for caregivers (both professional and non professional), on caring for older people, and the process gave me some food for thought—Beyond the painful reminder of the decline that often comes with age, and the comfort in the quiet gratitude
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AUGUST 15, 2017 BY SARAH PEARCE (Or, How To Think Like a Literary Terrorist) It is with absolute glee that I have returned to the literary translation project that I had to shelve 18 months ago in the interest of finishing my work and doing the kind of work that would count towards making me tenurable. Yes, I still have
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17 January, 2025 • Yasmeen Hanoosh, Huda Fakhreddine The Markaz Review We have spent our lives and our entire histories unpacking ourselves culturally and politically for the benefit of an uninterested, arrogant, self-centered other who is often at the same time the oppressor and aggressor who is responsible for our miseries, benefits from them, and
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Gabriela Saldanha In: Corpus-based Studies across Humanities https://doi.org/10.1515/csh-2023-0013 OPEN ACCESS Abstract The concept of subjectification plays a key role in Foucault’s theory of governmentality and has been an important tool for the analysis of policy discourses, for example, in the form of Bacchi’s (2009. Analysing Policy: What’s the Problem Represented to Be? Frenchs Forest, N.S.W.: Pearson Australia) ‘What’s
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by Tadhg Mac Eoghain In order to survive as a freelance translator in today’s hostile climate, I’ve had to take a Jekyll and Hyde approach to my work. On the one hand, I very happily collaborate with a team of other like-minded, caring and politically driven translators as part of Guerrilla Media Collective (GMC), a feminist, commons-oriented, worker-owned translation and
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Ted Underwood 29 June 2023 A graduate student who fell asleep in 1982 and woke up in 2022 might see large language models as a triumph for cultural theory. It is hard to imagine a clearer vindication of a thesis that linguists, critics, and anthropologists spent much of the twentieth century advancing — the thesis that language is not an
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Lina Mounzer on the Urgency of Telling the Stories of Conflict October 6, 2016, Literary Hub In the last few months, I’ve moved houses no less than 35 times. I have been threatened, beaten, strip-searched, thrown in prison, tortured and made to watch as my mother knelt weeping at the dirty feet of tribal leaders to beg for
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