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Culture in Simultaneous Interpreting of Political Discourse: Obama's Speech in Cairo
(2010-05)
Political speeches, especially at times of international crises, play an important role in aiding or obstructing world peace. This is particularly valid for Western/Arab and Muslim relations. Inappropriate renditions (in ...
Dubbing Timon & Pumbaa Cartoon into Egyptian Arabic
(2011-06)
As boundaries among cultures diminish the need for really comprehending them is arising simultaneously. Although children's cartoons are considered a form of entertainment for people of different ages, they also contain a ...
Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech: Translation and Commentary
(2016-12)
Although Winston Churchill wrote some of the greatest speeches of the twentieth century, few of those speeches or only fragments of them have been translated into Arabic. This thesis is a translation and commentary of one ...
Repetition in Simultaneous Interpreting of Political Discourse: Obama's Speech in Cairo
(2011-06)
The aim of this thesis is to examine repetition in the interpreting of political discourse. To this end, three interpretings into Arabic of Obama's speech in Cairo were analyzed. In doing so, the thesis attempts to answer ...
Textually-Mediated Synonymy in English / Arabic Translation
(2011-12)
Translation can be seen as a communicative action built on the support of understanding the pragmatic and semiotic dimensions which envelop all texts. This research aims to provide evidence for the need to have a wider ...
Ideology in the Translation of Legal Treaties
(2012-04)
The British Colonial Era produced a number of international treaties, such as the 1820 General Treaty of Peace with the Arab Tribes. The treaty produced in English was translated into Arabic three times. This study analyzes ...
The Translation of Euphemism in Political Discourse
(2017-05)
Euphemism is a word or a stretch of words by which the writer/speaker intends to generate an expression or utterance that if said bluntly would make the receiver feel unpleasant and embarrassed. The purpose of this thesis ...
Through These Veins: Translation and Commentary
(2017-01)
This thesis investigates translation problems and strategies by carrying out an Arabic translation of a literary text taken from the novel Through These Veins, by Ann Marie Ruff, and by discussing the challenges and the ...
50 Signs of Mental Illness: Translation and Commentary
(2013-07)
This thesis deals with the translation and investigation of the most appropriate translation strategies and approaches to use when translating texts of psychological nature. Three chapters of the book entitled 50 Signs of ...
The Ideological Stamp: Translation of Political Discourse in News Media
(2011-06)
The aim of this thesis is to examine the way the ideological stamp manipulates the translation of political discourse in news media and how it affects accuracy in the translation process. In the ideal world, news media, ...