Faculty

Profile

College / Department

Department of Arabic and Translation Studies

Teaching areas

Intercultural communication Translation and interpreting English (research and academic writing, writing for business/business communication, public speaking skills and conventions, Innovation and entrepreneurship. General linguistics, discourse/text studies Communication and media studies

Research areas

Intercultural communication / studies Translation studies English and linguistics/Discourse/text studies Communication and media studies Glocalization Higher Education Communication and media

Education

PhD, Discourse/text Studies (information Structure As Texts, Applied To Communication Of Politics And Media Texts Through Translation), University of Salford, United Kingdom, 1991

MA, Applied Linguistics, University of Salford, United Kingdom, 1986

BA, English And Linguistics, Hassan II University, Morocco, 1985

Professional experience

Professor, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2001 - Present

University Of Salford, Manchester, Uk, University of Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom, 1990 - 2003

Memberships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA), October 2013

• 2012- Member IATIS, September 2012 - April 2020

• 2012- Member, IATIS Training Committee., September 2012 - April 2020

• 2011- Member, doctoral committee, European Society for Translation Studies (EST)., September 2011 - April 2020

• 1994-2008. Member of ESRI (European Studies Research Institute), University of Salford (UK)., September 1994 - June 2008

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2720

Dr. Said Faiq

Professor

PhD, University of Salford, United Kingdom

With some 30 years in academia in Africa, the Middle East and Great Britain, professor Faiq is an established teacher and researcher in the interdisciplinary field of inter/cultural studies. He has taught English, linguistics, translation and interpreting, intercultural studies, media and communication. His research sits at the interface of intercultural communication, media and representation as discourse (managing intercultural encounters in/of human interaction and behavior). He has published widely on these issues. He has assumed a number of academic administrative positions, including head/chair of departments, and director /coordinator of graduate and undergraduate programs.

Publications

Said Faiq. Translation without Axiology, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2023

Said Faiq. The Master Discourse of Translation (from Arabic), International Journal Of Communication And Translation

Said Faiq. Arabic translation across discourses, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2019

Said Faiq. The discourse of translation, and the translation of discourse, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2019

Said Faiq. Discourse in Translation, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019

Said Faiq And Said Faiq. Introduction: Translation as D-discourse, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019

Said Faiq, Pantuchowicz And A. Warso. Imitation, Representation … or the Master Discourse of Translation, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2017

Awards and Honors

Research honour, AUS, 20 December 2012

Teaching honour, AUS, 23 November 2012

UK- RAE (Research Assessment Exercise), UK, Returned by Salford University for the UK RAE. This generated reserach income to the University between 2002 and 2008., 9 October 2002

Conference Organization, The Arab League, London Office, 16 September 1998

Merit for teaching and research, Salford University, UK., 21 May 1998

Chevening Scholarships, The Foreign & Commonwealth office, To fund a graduate student in the UK with me as supervisor of research., 14 August 1996

Conference, The International Conference Fund, 21 March 1996

Doctoral Research, The Arab-British Chamber of Commerce (UK)., 6 September 1989