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Edward Said, 1986, Exile

January 25, 2015 Mona Baker Translation, Videos

Published on Apr 5, 2013 EDWARD SAID (1935-2003). Palestinian-born intellectual and world-famous literary critic. Author of ‘Orientalism’ and ‘The Question of Palestine’. Professor of English Literature at Columbia University, NYC until his death. From the BBC series ‘Exiles’.

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Edward Said, exile

Translation in Exile

January 7, 2015 Mona Baker Events, Translation

International Conference organized by the Centre for Literature in Translation of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University, in cooperation with the University of Santiago de Compostela and the Federal University of Santa Catarina. Venue: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, December 10-11, 2015 Bringing together scholars from different disciplines such as cultural studies, translation studies, area studies, comparative literature and anthropology, this

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displacement, exile, Literary Translation, multilingualism

The Poet Cannot Stand Aside: Arabic Literature and Exile

September 12, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Culture, Palestine, Translation

M. Lynx Qualey Fourteen hundred years ago and more, the poet-prince Imru’ al-Qais was banished by his father. The king exiled his son, or so the legend goes, in part because of the prince’s poetry. Thus it was that, when the king was killed by a group of his subjects, al-Qais was traveling with friends. Al-Qais returned to avenge his