Translation, in the age of Google Translate, “fake news” and the Internet, is a matter of a click. For most of the end-users, that click masks both the Cold War roots of translation technologies and the complex professional networks that lie behind it. Despite considerable advances in translation technologies, translators are still essential in a … Continue reading Special issue is published →

Pleased to announce the publication of my article, The cultural Cold War in the Middle East: William Faulkner and Franklin Book Programs, in the forthcoming special issue of the Journal Translation and Interpreting Studies on Translation and the Cultural Cold War, which I have co-edited with Giles Scott-Smith. The article is open access and available … Continue reading Faulkner and the cultural Cold War →

One of the very early translations published in Tehran in 1333/1954 with the support of Franklin. The book, You as a Machine, was part of a very popular science books for children by the American author Bertha Morris Parker. Interestingly enough, the color photos were actually printed by Dar al Hilal publishing in Cairo. The … Continue reading You as a Machine →

Excited to announce that from next academic year I will be teaching a course entitled, "Culture Wars: Competing World Views in the Cold War", as part of Leiden Universiteit Honours College Humanities Lab. This is the description of the course: The Cold War is generally understood as a confrontation between capitalism and communism, represented in … Continue reading Culture Wars: Competing World Views in the Cold War →

Last year when I was in the Library of Congress, I checked a number of boxes that included the actual books published by Franklin field offices. The local Franklin offices had to send 25 copies of each single title to the Franklin head office in New York. A look at the list of receivers is, … Continue reading The legacy of Franklin in the US →