Oppression is not a point of view
June 23, 2022 By Helen Mackreath, Los Angeles Review of Books IN THE WAKE of the intensifying resistance to the occupation of Palestine, the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States (and beyond), and such movements as #StandWithStandingRock, appeals for solidarity with the plight of migrants, occupied populations, racialized minorities, and Indigenous peoples have become culturally pervasive. This
» Read morePlenary 1 النص والسياق: الترجمة في ظل حالة الطوارئ سماح سليم Abstract This presentation will explore the problems associated with activist translating in revolutionary historical moments like the one that began in Egypt in 2011. Using my experience working as a subtitler with the radical video collective Mosireen in 2012/13, I want
» Read moreYasmin El-Rifae June 12th, 2015, Muftah I walked through downtown Cairo on a quiet Friday morning in March 2015, late to a conference I had helped organize and a little bit anxious. The conference was about the political importance of translation – of language and concepts – in connecting protest movements to one another and allowing them to be narrated
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» Read moreWorkshop تصوير الثورة: تجربة وسائل إعلام جديدة في ترجمة تجربة معقدة اليسا ليبو Abstract Filming Revolution (Lebow, forthcoming 2015) is an interactive meta-documentary that surveys the field of independent/documentary filmmaking in Egypt since the revolution. Comprised of over 30 interviews with filmmakers, activists, archivists and artists, and linked extracts from their work, this
» Read morePlenary 7 الإسكندرية والنشاط السياسي: ترجمة الذاكرة والاسطورة والمثالية الطوباوية عمرو علي Abstract One of the long-standing fears of Alexandrian activism has been the eclipsing of its people’s local struggles by a Cairo-centric narrative – an issue that is further aggravated by limited bilingualism among the coastal city’s middle class revolutionaries,
» Read morePlenary 6 ترجمة النصوص الخاصة بالاحتجاجات والحركات عبر الزمان، والمكان، والثقافة كريستينا فليشر فومينايا Abstract Protests and movements in one place can inspire and influence people far beyond the point of origin, with unexpected and impossible to predict consequences. In this talk I will draw on examples from the recent wave
» Read morePlenary 5 ترجمة التمرد: من الاحتجاجات المحلية إلى الانتفاضات العالمية براندون چوردان Abstract Since 2011, streets and squares across the world have become the site of massive demonstrations, strikes, occupations, riots, rebellions, and revolutions. From the Arab uprisings to the movement of the squares in Southern Europe, and from there to the global Occupy movement
» Read morePlenary 4 تغييــــــر الأطـــــــر وخطـــــوط الصـــــدع خالد عبد الله Abstract The story of the Egyptian revolution carries a heavy burden. Its many tales travel across contexts and experience, within Egypt and beyond it, influencing movements and revolutions while building dreams and threatening them. Solidarity fundamentally entails sharing an interpretation of a story. How that story is
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