واقع الترجمة في المملكة وخطوات تصحيحه – The State of Translation in Saudi Arabia and How to Fix It

Dr Khalid Mohammed Al-Sagheer, writing in Al-Jazirah, takes stock of translation in Saudi Arabia and proposes concrete steps to put it right.

واقع الترجمة في المملكة وخطوات تصحيحه – د. خالد محمد الصغيّر

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A video I shared without a title – I would encourage readers to have a look.

ثورة الترجمة العربية تنطلق من الخليج – The Arabic Translation Revolution Starts in the Gulf

An Asharq Al-Awsat piece arguing that the new wave of Arabic translation is being driven from the Gulf – a claim worth weighing against what we see in the region's universities.

ثورة الترجمة العربية تنطلق من الخليج

الوثائقي الغامض كيف اكتشف المسلمون أمريكا قبل كريستوف كولومبوس بزمن بعيد...

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The Politics of Competing Pedagogies in a Translation Programme (TII Conference 2016)

My paper at the 7th TII Translation Conference in Doha, on the politics of competing pedagogies and curricular practices inside a translation programme – as captured by the conference's live tweet.

The politics of competing pedagogies and curricular practices in a translation program, Fouad El Karnichi #TII_Conf7 pic.twitter.com/t0KGKRIC4Y — TII (@TII_HBKU), 29 March 2016

Video Remote Interpreting Goes Round-the-Clock

A Common Sense Advisory note on a new video remote interpreting solution offering 24-hour language services – one more sign of where interpreting work is heading.

New Video Remote Interpreting Solution Delivers Round-the-Clock Language Services

Anthony Pym on Translation and Language Learning

A talk by Anthony Pym on translation and language learning – the two have been kept apart for too long, and Pym explains why that is changing.

Philip Kerr: The Return of Translation

Philip Kerr's webinar on the return of translation to language teaching – a good starting point for anyone bridging language pedagogy and translator education.

حوار العرب: الترجمة – Arab Dialogue on Translation

An Arabic-language television discussion on translation and its place in Arab culture.

التعليم الجامعي في العالم العربي تحت المجهر – Arab University Education Under the Microscope

Hassan Dawah, in Asharq Al-Awsat, puts university education in the Arab world under the microscope – a useful backdrop to the translation-programme questions I keep returning to.

التعليم الجامعي في العالم العربي تحت المجهر – حسن دواح

وزارة التعليم العالي تبدأ في ترجمة الكتب الجامعية العالمية إلى العربية – Translating International Textbooks into Arabic

An Asharq Al-Awsat report on a Ministry of Higher Education initiative to translate international university textbooks into Arabic – exactly the kind of project that needs trained translators.

وزارة التعليم العالي تبدأ في ترجمة الكتب الجامعية العالمية إلى العربية