Translation Studies

Feridüddin Attâr’ın Pendnâme’si, Osmanlı coğrafyasında uzun yıllar okunmuş ve yaygınlığını korumuş bir eserdir. Osmanlı şârihleri tarafından da birçok defa tercüme ve şerh edilmiştir. Bu şerh çalışmalarından biri olan İsmet Efendi’nin Tuhfetü’l-İsmet’i çalışmamızın konusunu oluş…

قد وجدت المشكلة الدلالية في ترجمة القرآن إلى اللغة الإندونيسية الصادرة من وزارة الشؤون الدينية الإندونيسية. وهذه المشكلة ظهرت بسبب تطور دلالة الكلمة في اللغة الإندونيسية، ومنهجية الترجمة التي نهج عليها المترجمون، واختلاف الطبيعة بين اللغة الإندونيسية واللغة العربية. كان الترجمة …

This thesis focuses on Saudi novels and how they relate to world literature. Also highlighted is the history of cinema in Saudi Arabia. This paper mainly spotlights The Green Bicycle by Haifaa Al-Mansour and her film Wadjda. Many Saudi novels have succeeded in the global market.…

This study aims at drawing a clear picture of translator training in Jordan through the evaluation of translation programs at the Master's level. The framework of the Context, Input, Process, and Product components of the CIPP evaluation model developed by Daniel Stufflebeam in …

In 1964, Mahmoud Darwish, the late national Palestinian poet, published his canonical poem "Identity Card". The poem, constructing an essentialized Arab identity, has since enjoyed a prolific afterlife in both modern Arabic poetry, and Israeli literary discourse. Although it had…

Home Tongue Earthquake presents a case study (or test) of diasporic Ashkenazi translingual poetics in the twentieth- and twenty-first century, which inflects and re-accents Hebrew and English, among other national host languages. The transterritorial civilization of diaspora Ash…

This is a pilot study, intended to begin an investigation of the challenges of English-to-Arabic language translation in Saudi Arabia by first analyzing the work of the Scientific Saudi Institute (SSI) alongside other translation initiatives throughout the country. For the last …

Today’s world is comprised of multicultural communities filled with people that belong to different races, ethnicities, and linguistic and ethnic groups. Therefore, effective communication has not become a challenge. Translation is crucial for communication and exchange of infor…

This thesis contains a translation into Turkish of Athanasius’ On the Incarnation along with an introduction to the work. The introduction contains four sections. In section one, I present the historical context of the work and the background of the debates about the nature of t…

This dissertation examines the Islamic legal framework developed by the Mamlūk Cairo-based Shāfiʿī jurist, ʿAbd al-Raḥīm al-Isnawī (704/1305–772/1370), for the khunthā’s legal and social position in a legal manual titled Īḍāḥ al-mushkil fī aḥkām al-khunthā al-mushkil. The introd…

Today, infectious diseases are only a plane ride away. With the rise in vaccine-preventable diseases and the development of multidrug resistant organisms, the World Health Organization has issued a 5-year plan to address these public health threats. The overall goal of this thes…

Arab feminism is often undermined because of Western feminism's presupposition of a universal oppressive patriarchy which affects women globally in the exact same way. These assumptions result in the misrepresentations of Arab women as oppressed victims and negligence of Arab wo…

Grimm's Fairy Tales, although written two centuries ago, still enjoy a widespread popularity. In fact, the short stories originally published in 1812 in German have been the object of many adaptations across languages, time and space as well as genres (plays, movies, video games…

This study addresses the prevalence of English terminology in published Arabic documentation on social media. Although the problem of using English terms in translation instead of existing native ones has been addressed in general by researchers around the world, the attitude of…

Humans have practices in their cultures that distinguish them from other cultures. They also have a belief system that manages their life and forms their rules and practices. Globalization helped bring different cultures and societies closer. Hence, it is important to learn abou…

This study investigates translation strategies used to render satire in two different modalities of audiovisual translation, dubbing and subtitling, of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons from American English into Modern Standard Arabic (Subtitling) and Egyptian vernacula…

This thesis deals with localizing a chapter of a book through transadaptation. The subject of this study is an English parenting book titled Hate me Now, Thank me Later by Dr. Robin Berman (2014). The book proposes practical methods of raising children and aims to improve the pe…

Translation quality assessment (TQA) has garnered considerable attention, particularly at the end of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Juliane House’s revised TQA model is considered to be one of the most important models for assessing the quality of…

This thesis reflects upon the visual and verbal transadaptation of the Western classic fairytale The Snow Queen into the Arabic Qatari culture. The illustrations were creatively transadapted to provide Qatari-specific imagery. The verbal text was translated from English into Mod…

In the 3rd century BCE the Hebrew Torah was translated into Greek. This work argues that the translator of Greek Genesis, a narrative text concerning global and Jewish national origins, aimed to make his translation's plot virtuous according to contemporary literary standards: c…