Monthly Archives: May 2009

Getting Everybody Talking in a Multilingual Crowd

Written by jessica. Posted on May 26, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
Translation of the web is all the rage these days. When you think about it, it’s kind of strange that the rage didn’t happen sooner, but that probably has lots to do with technical aspects of machine translation that I can’t begin to imagine. The fact remains that, over the past year or so, all kinds [...]

تدريب مع الهيئة الملكية للأفلام

Written by jessica. Posted on May 21, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged . No comments.
إنه لمن دواعي سروري أن حضرت إلى عمان/ الأردن لأشترك بورشة العمل مع الهيئة الملكية للأفلام في أس إي إي عمان و التي قدمها السيد جوي إيتو و دوناتيلا ديلاراتا من شركة كرييتف كومن / مشاع ابداعي ورشة العمل حددت من 18 أيار الى 22 أيار 2009 بحضور مشتركين من مصر, لبنان و الأردن من مختلف [...]

Well, What Do You Think? Part I

Written by jessica. Posted on May 20, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , . No comments.
I finally got around to drafting a somewhat coherent course overview today. I would really rather be writing a post about translation, since that seems to be a hot topic this week, but I can’t do it justice just yet. So in lieu of our thoughts on important young players like yamli.com and meedan.net, here’s [...]

Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon, Oh My! Digital and Social Media Training in the Arab World

Written by jessica. Posted on May 18, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , , . 1 Comment.
We can’t keep up. It seems like every time we open our inbox, another digital media training is taking place in the Arab world, in Jordan or Egypt (update May 19: we learned about another training in Egypt from ifikra)—or, of course, at the end of this month in Lebanon, as we initiate our own [...]

Welcome to Lebanon! Photo Contest

Written by jessica. Posted on May 15, 2009. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , . No comments.
A few enterprising photo-lovers launched a contest today for the photos that best capture that all-too-familiar saying, Welcome to Lebanon! The group wants publish a set of postcards this summer, “with pictures of those ‘only in Lebanon!’ moments…like seeing a car reverse in the middle of the highway, or the fact that there is valet parking [...]