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Update: Egypt confiscates revolution-time graffiti book for “instigating revolt”

February 18, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Citizen Media, Egypt, Street Art

Egypt Independent Mohamed Mostafa Egypt’s customs services in Alexandria have seized 400 copies of “Walls of Freedom”, a book depicting Egypt’s street graffitti art in the context of the 2011 uprising, for “instigating revolt,” says the Finance Ministry. Ahmed al-Sayyad, the ministry’s undersecretary, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the book contains elements that give “advice on confronting police and army forces,”

Understanding new hybrid professions: Bourdieu, illusio and the case of public service interpreters

February 17, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Translation

DOI: 10.1080/0305764X.2014.991277 Helen Colley & Frédérique Guéry Published in: Cambridge Journal of Education Volume 45, Issue 1, 2015 Special Issue: Evoking and Provoking Bourdieu in Educational Research pages 113-131 Abstract Public spending reductions across the advanced capitalist world are creating new professions that have a ‘hybrid’ status and/or role. However, research on professional learning has paid little attention to

University Lecturer in Arabic Language

February 16, 2015 Mona Baker Job Announcements, Translation

The University of Oslo Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages Job Description A full time position as University Lecturer in Arabic at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages is available from 15th of August 2015 The position as University Lecturer is a teaching position without research duties. A part of the position (25 percent) is, however, set aside

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University of Oslo

SOAS call for BDS Academic Boycott

February 16, 2015 Mona Baker BDS News, Palestine

Published on Feb 12, 2015 On February 23rd – 27th, 2015 SOAS will vote in a school-wide referendum on the BDS call for the Academic Boycott of Israeli Institutions. Join the Movement & VOTE YES in the Referendum!

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boycott, Israel, SOAS

Shimaa ElSabbagh in art

February 8, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Egypt

Posted on Saturday, 7 February, 2015 by amroali I have been absolutely gutted since Shimaa ELSabbagh was killed by security forces two weeks ago as she headed to Tahrir Square to lay flowers on the eve of the fourth anniversary of the 2011 Egyptian revolution. While I never personally knew Shimaa, we shared numerous common friends who have been in tears and heartache since that

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Amro Ali, Khalid Said, Mina Danial, Omar Salah, Shaimaa El Sabagh, Sondos

Art and revolution

February 5, 2015 Mona Baker Egypt, Interviews, Omar Robert Hamilton, Translating Dissent

on 07 Novembre 2014. Interview with OMAR ROBERT HAMILTON (MOSIREEN COLLECTIVE) – by SARA MARCHESI and DUCCIO SCOTINI “We trust to each other’s strength. Or we did. And we were strong, undefeatable, once. Now, more than ever, we must find that strength, that trust. If you ever saw hope in this revolution, if you ever gave someone a cigarette on a

Reinventing democracy

February 5, 2015 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Publications

Marianne Maeckelbergh argues that one of the global justice movement’s key innovations has been its approach to democratic decision-making December 2009, in Red Pepper It was getting late on day two of seemingly hopeless meetings. The assembly hall was full, but the energy with which the discussion began was waning fast. People had travelled to Paris from across Europe for this European

Egypt: after the revolution comes the battle for language

February 5, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Articles, Egypt, Translation

What do words such as ‘freedom’ or ‘coup’ mean in Egypt today? One artist is collecting definitions from across a divided nation Patrick Kingsley Cairo Friday 18 July 2014 as it a coup? Was it a revolution? The overthrow of Mohamed Morsi last July spawned unending debate in Egypt about how the president’s removal should be defined. Not that this was unusual:

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Amira Hanafi

‘Dictionary of the Revolution': Defining Words in Flux

February 5, 2015 Mona Baker Articles, Articles, Egypt, Translation

BY MLYNXQUALEY on FEBRUARY 4, 2015 On January 31st, A Dictionary of the Revolution launched a kickstarter to boost the project toward its final phase: This fund-raising campaign is focused on building the dictionary a digital text and sound archive for the material that Amira Hanafi and her team have collected in the past year. Through one-on-one interviews, leaping off from particular hot-button words, “A Dictionary of the Revolution makes space for viewpoints that

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Amira Hanafi

CALL FOR PAPERS: Women in Translation

February 2, 2015 Mona Baker Call for Papers, Translation

TransCulturAl: A Journal of Translation and Cultural Studies A lot of research has been done on women in translation since Lori Chamberlain wrote “Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation” in 1988 and argued that writing was marked “to be original and ‘masculine’ and translation “to be derivative and ‘feminine’” (254). Women’s work as translators has been revalorized, women writers are

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