Mona El Namoury
Decentralizing Tahrir Square
Books
July 3, 2012
Decentralizing Tahrir Square
In his 1970 Nobel lecture, Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn described art and literature as “the only substitute for what we…
In other words: The blown-up bridges of translation in Mona Baker’s ‘Translation as (Re)Narration’
Books
May 4, 2012
In other words: The blown-up bridges of translation in Mona Baker’s ‘Translation as (Re)Narration’
DOHA — In “Translation in and of the World,” a three-day-conference organized in Doha by the Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation, the…
Documenting history to depose the regime
Archaeology
April 7, 2012
Documenting history to depose the regime
Many attempts to document Egypt's 25 January revolution have been made over the past year. The American University in Cairo's…
Radwa Ashour on the train of images of the Egyptian revolution
Archaeology
February 19, 2012
Radwa Ashour on the train of images of the Egyptian revolution
“I will speak Arabic.” Those were Radwa Ashour’s first words for the keynote speech in the “Narrating the Arab Spring”…