I believe many of you don’t know that translators actually have their own special day to celebrate: September 30th of each year. Back in 1991 the International Federation of Translators (FIT) launched the idea of an officially recognised International Translation Day to show solidarity of the worldwide translation community in an effort to promote the [...]

“My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.” – Edward Said Yesterday marked the  8th anniversary of the passing of Edward Said, the Palestinian literary theorist, the esteemed University Professor [...]

Today history was made, today a new lesson was taught, a lesson to all humanity about the value of freedom of speech, the fulfillment of justice, and the right to oppose ‘the other’:  no matter where you come from, no matter where you live, no matter how peaceful you’re doing it, if you ever protest [...]

“Twenty nine years have past, my goodness. I’ll never forget you wonderful people. Neither will I forget the extremes of inhumanity and human compassion, the ugliness and beauty, the laughter and grins while murdering with a disregard for humanity and life impossible to comprehend, and the tears and cries of deepest despair and suffering no [...]

Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan on how Americans and Middle Easterners can move past a decade scarred by 9/11 and the subsequent “war on terror” to embrace the new spirit of cooperation embodied by the Arab Spring: “Over the past ten years, much has been written in an attempt to make sense of [...]

Ok ladies and gents, mark your calendars and get ready for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival (TPFF), it’s going to take place between Sept.30- Oct.7, 2011. The festival program for 2011 is now live! The TPFF is a non-profit organization which started  back in 2008 as a commemoration of the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba.  Dedicated [...]