Language, culture and ideology in translating from Arabic

[ahmed_allaithy]

<p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="Consolas"><font size="5"><font color="#ff0000">Length of proposals:<p></p></font></font></font></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5"><strong><u>Abstracts</u></strong> should be approximately 300 words. Article length depends on the subject matter, but as a rough guide most should be in the region of 5000 to 7000 words, including references.</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Consolas" size="5"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">Only original contributions are accepted. Submission of a manuscript implies that it has not been previously published and that it is not under review elsewhere.</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Consolas" size="5"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" color="#0000ff" size="5">Translation may be from Arabic into any language, but the article must be written in English.</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Consolas" size="5"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">The aim of this volume is to bring together theory and practice of translation and translating FROM Arabic into any language.  Without limitations on the subject mattter/genre or the target language, the anticipated sections of the are as follows (note that final choice will depend on the requirements of  a coherent volume): </font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Consolas" size="5"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">A) Language (micro levels) and translation from Arabic.</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">B) Culture/ideology and translation from Arabic (loyalties, patronage, appropriation, transcreation, translation as social agency, pseudo-translation, interventions, censorship, distortion, etc).</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">C) The Discourse of translation from Arabic (theoretical approaches, universe of discourse, poetics, translation history and historiography, translation milestones, the discourse of cultural representations and translation from Arabic, etc)</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Consolas" size="5"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Consolas" size="5"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="Consolas"><font size="5"><font color="#ff0000">Deadlines:<p></p></font></font></font></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Consolas" size="5"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">1) Abstract submissions:  15 August 2009 (as word-compatible format) Include in the following order:</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" color="#993300" size="5">a) Title of contribution</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" color="#993300" size="5">b) Name (s) of author (s)</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" color="#993300" size="5">c) Affiliation (s)</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" color="#993300" size="5">d) E-mail address (es)</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" color="#993300" size="5">e) Abstract (300 words)</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Consolas" size="5"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">2) <font color="#ff0000">Notification: 30 September 2009.</font></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Consolas" size="5"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">3) <font color="#ff0000">Complete contribution submission: 20 December 2009.</font></font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Consolas" size="5"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">4) <font color="#ff0000">Anticipated publication date: Early 2010</font>.</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><p><font face="Consolas" size="5"> </font></p></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><b><font face="Consolas"><font size="5">Contact details:<p></p></font></font></b></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">1) Said Faiq (</font><a href="mailto:sfaiq@aus.edu"><font face="Consolas" size="5">sfaiq@aus.edu</font></a><font face="Consolas" size="5">)  OR</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">2) Ovidi Carbonell (</font><a href="mailtovidi@usal.es"><font face="Consolas" size="5">ovidi@usal.es</font></a><font face="Consolas" size="5">) OR</font></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"><font face="Consolas" size="5">3) Ali Al-Manna' (</font><a href="mailto:ali@sayyab.co.uk"><font face="Consolas" size="5">ali@sayyab.co.uk</font></a><font face="Consolas" size="5">) </font></p>