Oppression is not a point of view
LAURA AND NORMAL ISLAND NEWS JUL 21, 2025 Unquestionably the most disturbing aspect of Israel’s genocide has been the outbreak of terrorist grannies across the UK. No one knows why so many grannies resorted to terrorism when Yvette Cooper criminalised opinions she dislikes under the Terrorism Act. I guess we’ll never figure this one out… In
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Mona Baker Keynote at 11th Asia-Pacific Translation and Interpreting Forum 2025 Abstract Much has been written about activist and volunteer groups of translators and interpreters who have played an important role in promoting a variety of political agendas, at least since the rise of the global justice movement at the beginning of this century. But we are now witnessing
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Khadidja Merakchi Assistant Professor at Heriot-Watt University March 25, 2025 I recently finished a revision of the Arabic translation of guidelines for caregivers (both professional and non professional), on caring for older people, and the process gave me some food for thought—Beyond the painful reminder of the decline that often comes with age, and the comfort in the quiet gratitude
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AUGUST 15, 2017 BY SARAH PEARCE (Or, How To Think Like a Literary Terrorist) It is with absolute glee that I have returned to the literary translation project that I had to shelve 18 months ago in the interest of finishing my work and doing the kind of work that would count towards making me tenurable. Yes, I still have
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17 January, 2025 • Yasmeen Hanoosh, Huda Fakhreddine The Markaz Review We have spent our lives and our entire histories unpacking ourselves culturally and politically for the benefit of an uninterested, arrogant, self-centered other who is often at the same time the oppressor and aggressor who is responsible for our miseries, benefits from them, and
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A recent resolution to condemn scholasticide has brought renewed attention to the term. But what does it mean? And where did it come from? Inside Higher Ed explains. By Josh Moody Last week members of the American Historical Association voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution condemning scholasticide in Gaza amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. The resolution
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The university of Bologna is offering grants to students from Gaza to study in Bologna. The only requirement is that they were enrolled in a university in Gaza in either the 2022−23 or 2023-24 academic years; and that they have the necessary language skills to attend courses in Bologna (held either in English or Italian). Further details as follows:
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Dear friends and colleagues, I am writing to let you know that I am stepping down as Director of the SISU Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies, Shanghai International Studies University, with effect from 1 January 2025. The Centre will then cease to exist, at my request, but the individual activities undertaken under its auspices will continue to run separately
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America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian, 10 November 2024 In hindsight, 2016 was the beginning of the beginning. And 2024 is the end of that beginning and the start of something much, much worse.
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Ahdaf Souief London Review of Books, 1 November 2024 On Monday, 28 October, six small book collectives, including the Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest), published an open letter signed by a thousand writers (I am one of them) pledging to boycott Israeli cultural institutions that are ‘complicit in violating Palestinian rights’ and have ‘never publicly recognised the inalienable rights of
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