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Activism on the Move: Mediating Protest Space in Egypt with Mobile Technology

September 20, 2014 Mona Baker Articles, Citizen Media, Egypt, Street Art

Sep 05 2014 The 2011 revolutionary uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa abruptly captured global attention as the world was drawn breathlessly into the tumult with a profusion of media content, from Tweets to amateur video footage. Amidst the media blitz, analyses yielded two conflated and reactionary narratives of events. One contended that the popular protests of the

The Only Thing Worth Globalizing Is Dissent: Translation and the Many Languages of Resistance

September 2, 2014 Mona Baker Citizen Media, Events, Translation

A three-day conference to be 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 http://globalizingdissent.wordpress.com Activists from various regions and countries connect with and influence one another through practices involving various types of translation, including video subtitling, written translation, and oral interpretation. The Egyptian Revolution and the activists and