Oppression is not a point of view
Plenary 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
» Read morePlenary 3 الترجمة والتضامن في مشروع الفيلم التسجيلي كلمات نساء من الثورة المصرية ليل زهره مرتضي Note: This plenary was delivered via Skype, in the format of a conversation with Mona Baker and the audience, because the Egyptian authorities refused to grant Leil a visa. Abstract Translation has been an integral part
» Read morePlenary 2 الصحافــــة باعتبارهــــا ترجمــــة مدي مصر This panel was organized and moderated by Mada Masr and featured the following panelists: Lina Attalah, Chief Editor of Mada Masr Ahmad Ragab, Managing Editor of Al-Masry Al-Youm‘s Website Mostafa Mohie, Journalist at Mada Masr and MA Candidate in Anthropology Yasmin El-Rifae, Freelance Writer, Palestine Festival of Literature
» Read more‘The Only Thing Worth Globalizing Is Dissent’ Translation and the Many Languages of Resistance A three-day conference held in Cairo, 6-8 March 2015 Funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, UK Organized by Mona Baker, Yasmin El Rifae, and Mada Masr https://globalizingdissent.wordpress.com Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/globalizingdissent Material uploaded under Resources/Globalizing Dissent relates to the above conference, and is intended to allow those who attended the conference
» Read moreBy Ahmed Refaat Mada Masr, 15 March 2015 I first heard Mona Baker two months ago in a workshop organized by the Imaginary School Program at Beirut, the art space not the city. It was called: “Prefigurative politics and creative subtitling.” During the three-hour event, Baker briefly summed up what she discusses more elaborately in her research project, “Translating the Egyptian
» Read moreUniversity of Tampere, Finland, 2-3 May 2016 FIRST CIRCULAR AND CALL FOR PAPERS The School of Language, Translation and Literary Studies at the University of Tampere is organising an international conference on legal language, translation and interpreting on 2-3 May 2016. We invite papers on e.g. the following topics Legal translation Administrative translation EU translation
» Read moreGuest Editors: David Gramling and Aniruddha Dutta Special Issue on Translating Transgender Submissions of 4000-9000 words (in any language). Due March 1, 2015 for publication in Spring 2016 Few primary and secondary texts about transgender lives and ideas have been translated from language to language in any formal way over the centuries. Meanwhile, transgender, gender variant, and gender non-confirming people have often
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