The Translation and Interpreting
Institute (TII), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College
of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), will be offering an innovative
community workshop that aims to enhance participants’ media
trans-editing skills.
Led by Dr Ashraf Abdel Fattah, instructor at
TII, Translating News and Views: Media Translation’s Art of Mediation is
a specialised four-day workshop, which will be conducted in both
English and Arabic and commence on February 25 at Education City.
Ideal
for prospective translator-journalists looking to expand their
understanding of best practices within the growing media industry, the
programme is open to all interested members of the public.
Nabeel
Rashid, translation reviser at TII said, “In our upcoming workshop,
participants will gain first-hand knowledge into media translation and
attain theoretical, practical, and critical thinking skills that are
commonly applicable to all sub-specialised fields of translation. We
welcome all interested applicants to register for this workshop, where
they can broaden their professional skill set and refine their knowledge
of concepts that are becoming increasingly relevant to the needs of the
growing market.”
In the workshop, Dr Abdel Fattah will impart both
academic knowledge and hands-on experience to help participants interact
effectively with the central forms of journalistic text. Programme
attendees will learn to critically analyse selected news stories and
media translation samples, focusing on their characteristic linguistic,
rhetorical, and discursive features. They will also gain insight into
the role of the translator-journalist as a mediator, negotiator, and
narrator of news stories; and will be able to understand the ideological
and cultural implications of media translation.
The course will be
divided into four days’ worth of three-hour segments, the first of which
will explore the various types, genres, and modes of media texts,
including audiovisual and social media. The second part will address the
problems, difficulties, and challenges commonly encountered by media
translators and interpreters, highlighting the structure of news stories
and the nature of trans-editing. The third and fourth parts will
provide participants with an opportunity to analyse media translations.
The
upcoming workshop is the latest in a series of community development
courses that HBKU routinely offers. CHSS is committed to developing
human capacity in Qatar and the region in regards to its enrolled
students and the broader community. The college offers a wide array of
trainings and language courses for adults and children alike throughout
the academic year.
Dr Ashraf Abdel Fattah