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Interpreting Conflict: Training Challenges in Humanitarian Field Interpreting

September 11, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

Barbara Moser-Mercer, Leïla Kherbiche and Barbara Class* Journal of Human Rights Practice (2014) 6(1): 140-158. doi: 10.1093/jhuman/hut025 First published online: January 6, 2014 Abstract When communication breaks down, conflict ensues. Resolving conflicts successfully relies heavily on re-establishing communication. Almost all conflicts involve parties who do not speak the same language or share the same culture. Language is the main vehicle of communication under such difficult circumstances, and

“A Bitter Disappointment,” Edward Said on His Encounter with Sartre, De Beauvoir and Foucault

August 31, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Culture, Palestine, Translation

AUGUST 26, 2014 EUGENE WOLTERS In 1979, Edward Said was invited by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to France for a conference on Middle East peace. It was in the wake of the Camp David Accords that ended the war between Egypt and Israel, that the author of “Orientalism” and ardent supporter of the Palestinian people, was invited to contribute with other

The Case of the Arabic Noirs

August 28, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Culture, Egypt, Jonathan Guyer, Translating Dissent, Translation

August 20, 2014 | by Jonathan Guyer Cairo: the metal detector beeps. The security man wears a crisp white uniform. He nods and leans back in his chair. The lobby’s red oriental carpet, so worn it’s barely red, leads upstairs to the hotel tavern. Enter the glass doors, where a cat in a smart bow tie and vest reaches for a lonely

Institution, Translation, Nation, Metaphor

August 14, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

LUCAS KLEIN Comparative Literature is defined in part by anxiety about its institutionality. Approaching translations as works of literary scholarship equivalent to our articles and monographs can address this anxiety and also work against the Herderian assumptions of national literatures. Ultimately, the comparison of comparative literature is a metaphorical process, putting it in the same process of negotiated familiarity and

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Interpreting Conflict: Training Challenges in Humanitarian Field Interpreting

Cosmopolitanism as Translation

“A Bitter Disappointment,” Edward Said on His Encounter with Sartre, De Beauvoir and Foucault

The Case of the Arabic Noirs

Institution, Translation, Nation, Metaphor