Oppression is not a point of view
Wiam El-Tamami Granta, 31 October 2013 I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where. – T. S. Eliot, ‘Burnt Norton’ I can tell you about my sister’s balcony, overhung with old trees that quiver with birdsong in the morning, a rare treat in this city. I can tell you about her sofa, lump by lump; about the dining table
» Read moreCornelia Zwischenberger / Martina Behr (eds.) ISBN:978-3-7329-0191-3 39,80 EUR Contents The issue of quality in interpreting has been debated for almost three decades now. This volume is evidence of the sociological turn Interpreting Studies is taking on quality research. Based on either a socio-cognitive perspective, a sociological approach, or the situational social variability of the entire source and target context, this
» Read moreTuesday, April 14, 2015 – 13:42 By: Mai Shams El-Din, Mada Masr اقرأها بالعربية This is an introduction to a series of interviews by Mada Masr with human rights workers in Egypt that attempts to situate the struggle for rights within the context of a larger movement and the contest over political space. Many human rights workers have felt targeted by the
» Read moreAn international conference on retranslation Boğaziçi University November 19-20, 2015 The conference follows the success of our first Retranslation in Context conference held at Boğaziçi University on December 12-13, 2013. Retranslation in Context I was conceived during the “Bibliographical and Analytical Research Project on Retranslations in Ottoman and Modern Turkish Societies” carried out at Boğaziçi University (2011-2016). Since the
» Read moreCLINA: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Communication Revista Interdisciplinaria de Traducción, Interpretación y Comunicación Intercultural PLEASE VISIT CLINA WEBSITE FOR UPDATES AND MORE INFORMATION http://diarium.usal.es/revistaclina/ revistaclina@usal.es CLINA publishes articles and reviews on translation, interpreting and intercultural communication in two monographic issues per year with accepted proposals after a double-blind review process. PERIODICITY OF CLINA: TWO ISSUES PER
» Read moreNOV 5, 2014 Source: Translation Tribulations KEVIN LOSSNER’S QUIRKY EXPLORATION OF TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGIES, MARKETING STRATEGIES, WORKFLOW OPTIMIZATION, RESOURCE REVIEWS, CONTROVERSIES, COFFEE AND OTHER TOPICS OF POSSIBLE INTEREST TO TRANSLATORS, LANGUAGE SERVICE PROVIDERS AND LANGUAGE SERVICE CONSUMERS. In 2012, a grant of 1.8 million euros of EU funds was awarded to the ACCEPT project. The avowed aim of ACCEPT (Automated
» Read moreSteve Jones considers a reflection on the Origin of Species’ influence on everything (except biology) 13 March 2014, Times Higher Education I have only once been alarmed when giving a lecture: in Syria a decade ago, when I gave a talk on evolution at the University of Damascus. The students were polite and interested, but several members of the faculty – large
» Read moreNew Left Review 13, January-February 2002 DAVID GRAEBER Is the ‘anti-globalization movement’ anything of the kind? Active resistance is true globalization, David Graeber maintains, and its repertoire of forms is currently coming from the arsenal of a reinvented anarchism. It’s hard to think of another time when there has been such a gulf between intellectuals and activists; between theorists of
» Read moreBY MLYNXQUALEY on JULY 22, 2015 In Mourid Barghouti’s seminal memoir, I Saw Ramallah, he writes about the loss of his private days — namely his birthday and his anniversary — as author Ghassan Kanafani was assassinated on the date of the first, and cartoonist Naji al-Ali on the second: From I Saw Ramallah: I got to know Naji in 1970 in Kuwait. He was the
» Read moreBy COSTICA BRADATAN JUNE 30, 2015 6:50 AM The New York Times, Opinionator, The Stone In 1916, Hugo Ball, the German writer who would soon become a founding member of the Dadaist movement, wrote the following account of his first meeting with the men who would be his artistic and philosophical compatriots: “An Oriental-looking deputation of four little men arrived, with
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