Workshops
Date(s): 5-7 September 2011 (Note: This workshop has been rescheduled due to recent events in Egypt and seveal other countries in the region; the original dates were 21-23 February)
Venue: Amman, Jordan
The teaching staff for the 2011 Amman Workshop include Professor Mona Baker (University of Manchester, UK), Professor Myriam Salama-Carr (University of Salford, UK), and Dr. Şebnem Susam-Sarajeva (University of Edinburgh, UK). Delegates include participants from Palestine (Jerusalem and Gaza), Egypt, Oman, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran and Turkey. For a report on the event, with photographs, see
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The third annual international translation conference, held by the Translation and Interpreting Institute in collaboration with Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation and the British Council, is set to take place in Doha on 29 April 2012. Running for three days under the theme Translation In and Of the World, the conference will offer literary and non-literary workshops and will cover a variety of topics in Translation Studies.
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Washington, DC - Google "39 Ways to Serve and Participate in Jihad" and you'll get over 590,000 hits. You'll find full-text English language translations of this Arabic document on the Internet Archive, an internet library; on 4Shared Desktop, a file-sharing site; and on numerous Islamic sites. You will find it cited and discussed in a US Senate Committee staff report and Congressional testimony. Feel free to read it. Just don't try to make your own translation from the original, which was written in Arabic in Saudi Arabia in 2003. Because if you look a little further on Google you will find multiple news accounts reporting that on April 12, a 29-year old citizen from Sudbury, Massachusetts named Tarek Mehanna was sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison for translating "39 Ways" and helping to distribute it online.
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Sohar University invites suitably qualified candidates to apply for the position of lecturer in translation and interpreting (English/Arabic) for the English Language and Translation Programme.
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Registration for the 2012 Conference of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies, 24th to 27th July 2012, at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, is now open.
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