This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by AUC students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness Egypt's ongoing revolution. This historic event has produced an unprecedented proliferation of political and cultural documents and materials, whether written, oral, or visual. Given their range, different linguistic registers, and referential worlds, these documents present a great challenge to any translator.The contributors to this volume have selectively translated chants, banners, jokes, poems, interviews, as well as presidential speeches and military communiqués. Their practical translation work is informed by the cultural turn in translation studies and the nuanced role of the translator as negotiator between texts and cultures. The chapters focus on the relationship between translation and semiotics, issues of fidelity and equivalence, creative transformation and rewriting, and the issue of target readership. This mature collective project is in many ways a reenactment of the new infectious revolutionary spirit in Egypt today.

Introduction: Translating RevolutionSamia MehrezI. Mulid al-Tahrir: Semiotics of a RevolutionSahar Keraitim and Samia MehrezII. Of Drama and Performance: Transformative Discourses of the RevolutionAmira Taha and Christopher CombsIII. Signs and Signifiers: Visual Translations of RevoltSarah Hawas and Laura GribbonIV. Reclaiming the City: Street Art of the RevolutionLewis Sanders IVV. Al-Thawra al-Dahika: The Challenges of Translating Revolutionary Humor Kantaro Taira and Heba SalemVI. The Soul of Tahrir: Poetics of the RevolutionLewis Sanders IV and Mark VisonàVII. The Army and the People are One Hand: Myths and their TranslationsMenna KhalilVIII. Global Translations and Translating the Global: Discursive Regimes of Revolt Sarah HawasAppendices (Arabic texts)NotesBibliographyIndex