Professor Basil Hatim

Professor in the Department of Arabic Studies

Professor Basil Hatim is a theorist in English/Arabic translation and translator/interpreter both into and out of Arabic. He has worked and lectured widely at universities throughout the world and published extensively on applied linguistics, text linguistics translation/interpreting and TESOL. He has also authored or co-authored several books including Discourse and the Translator (Longman 1990) and The Translator as Communicator (Routledge 1997) (both with Ian Mason), Communication Across Cultures (Exter University Press 1997), Teaching & Researching Translation (Longman 2002) and, with Jeremy Munday, Translation: An Advanced Resource Book (Routlege 2004). This is in addition to some 50 papers on a variety of intercultural communication issues in a diverse range of international refereed publications.