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Name:  Saadia Elamin. Assistant Professor

Area of specialization: Translation Studies

Phone: 4354400 - ext 2407

Office: 20/301

E-mail: selamin@ksu.edu.sa

Address: College of Languages and Translation, King Saud University,

P.O. Box: 7695, Riyadh11472, Saudi Arabia

          

 

 

Curriculum vitae 

Education:

o   Doctorate in Science and Techniques of Translation (Arabic-French-English), Higher School for Interpreters and Translators ( ESIT  www.univ-paris3.fr/esit), Sorbonne, 1984.

o   Professional Translator's Diploma ( Arabic-French-English), ESIT, 1979.

o   Master of Arts in Translation ( Arabic-French-English), ESIT, 1979.

o   Bachelor of Education (English and French), University of Khartoum www.sudan.net/uk/ , 1971.

 

Employment history:

  Assistant Professor at the following universities:

o   University of Khartoum: 1984-1990.

o   University of Benghazi, Libya: 1990-96.

o   King Saud University: since 2004 (1425 AH).

 

Department and College Committees:

-         Member of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Arts, University of Khartoum:, 1986-1989

-         Member of the Senate of the University of Khartoum, 1986-1989.

 

Courses taught:

  1- Theoretical courses:

               1- Issues and Problems of Translation, level 10. I started the course in 1998 and continued to teach it for 9 years.

               2- Stylistics, level 5, two semesters.

               3- Contrastive analysis, level 5, two semesters.

 

  2- Practical translation courses:

1- Legal translation, level 9. I started the course in 1998 and continued to teach it for 9 years.

2- Military translation, level 6, three years.

3- Translation in the field of humanities, level 5, one semester.

4- Translation in the field of education, level 6, one semester.

5- Translation in the field of administration, level 6, one semester.

 

 

3-    Interpreting:

a-     Consecutive interpreting, level 8, for 4 years.

b-    Bilateral interpreting II, level 10, for two years.

c-     Sight translation, level 6, for 5 years.

 

 

 

Professional Societies:

-         Member of the Alumni of the School of Paris ESIT www.univ-paris3.fr/aaeesit 1979-1985.

-         Member of the Association of Professors of English and Translation at Arab Universities, APETAU.

 

 

Participation in conferences:

§  Seminar on Language Teaching and Translation organized by The Association of Professors of French in Africa, Khartoum, 1985, paper presented: Langues de Specialite et Tranduction.

       

§  First conference on translation at Arab Universities organized by AUPELF (Association of Universities Using Partially or Totally the French language), Bourgiba School, Tunisia, 1985, paper presented: Connaissance Linguistique et Traduction. 

 

§  Second Conference on Translation at Arab Universities organized by AUPELF, King Fahad School of Translation, Tangier, Morocco, 1987.

 

 

§  Second APETAU Conference, University of Jordan, Amman, 2000, paper presented: translation programs at Arab Universities (Khartoum University and King Saud University): academia or professionalism?

 

§  Conference on Translation: Reality and Aspirations organized by Imam University, Riyadh, 2005, paper presented: Training Arabic Translators: responding to specific settings while keeping up with the pace of new developments in the field.

 

§  First academic gathering: Meeting of the Minds, 2008, organized by Prince Sultan University. Paper presented: New Trends and developments in Translation in the age of globalization. 

 

 

 

Research interests:

§  Translation theories and practice.

§  Teaching of Translation and Interpreting.

§  Terminology.

 

Published papers:

§  Connaissance linguistique et traduction, Journal of the Association of Professors of French in Africa,1986.

§  Traduire à Khartoum: de la théorie à la pratique, études traductologiques, Paris, Minard, 1990.

§  Reflections on the teaching of interpreting, Journal of King Saud University- Languages and Translation. King Saud University Press: Riyadh, 2003.

§    إعداد المترجم العربي: خصوصيته ومواكبة تطورات المهنة, منشورات جامعة الإمام محمد بن سعود الإسلامية, الإصدار الخاص بندوة اللغات والترجمة, الواقع والمأمول , 1-2/3/1426هـ.

§  Problems of English-Arabic Translation at the Undergraduate Level

   in an Arab University Setting, in Turjuman – Journal of translation Studies,  vol. 17, October 2008.

 

§  الترجمــة المنظورة: طرائقها وأساليبها، واستخدامها لتعزيز مهارات الترجمة في آداب،                     مجلة كلية الآداب، جامعة الخرطوم، العدد 26 ، ديسمبر 2008