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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Arabic and Translation Studies

Teaching areas

Audiovisual Translation, Consecutive & Simultaneous Interpreting, Terminology & Translation, Translation Theory, Contrastive Linguistics and Translation.

Research areas

Corpus-based Translation Studies, Audiovisual Translation, Terminology, Software & Web Localization, Machine Translation, Contrastive Linguistics & Translation, Lexical Semantics, and Arabic Linguistics.

Education

PhD, Translation Studies, UMIST (University of Manchester Insititute of Science & Technology), United Kingdom, 2004
MS, Translation Studies, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, United Kingdom, 2000
GD, Translation And Interpreting, Al-Mustansirya University, Iraq, 1992
BA, Translation, Al-Mustansirya University, Iraq, 1984

Professional experience

Assistant Professor Of Translation, English Language And Translation, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2004 - 2008
Translator, Emirates Center for Research and Strategic Studies, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2004 - 2004
Research Assistant, Multilingual Muse Project, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2004
Associate Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester,, United Kingdom, 2001 - 2003
Translator And Editor, Ord & Stil AB, Stockholm, Sweden, 1996 - 1999
Translator, Sukaina Translation Agency, Amman, Jordan, 1994 - 1994
Adjunct, Mustansirya University, Baghdad, Iraq, 1993 - 1994

Memberships

European Society for Studies in Screen Translation (ESIST), February 2015
European Society of Translation Studies (EST), January 2013
The Swedish Association of Industry Employees, SIF, January 1997

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2828

Dr. Sattar Izwaini

Professor
PhD, UMIST (University of Manchester Insititute of Science & Technology), United Kingdom

Sattar Izwaini has taught languages, linguistics and translation for undergraduate and graduate students in Britain and the Arab World. He has a long professional experience in translation and editing. His research interests include corpus-based translation studies, audiovisual translation, localization, terminology, machine translation, and contrastive linguistics and translation. He has presented research papers at conferences held at the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Lancaster, St. Petersburg and at the Maastricht School of International Communication. He has translated into Arabic works by Hermann Hesse, Virginia Woolf and Vilhelm Moberg.

Publications

Sattar Izwaini. The Role of Universities in Designing Translation Curriculum, September 2022
Sattar Izwaini. Linguistic and Cultural Transfer in Screen Productions Dubbed into Arabic.
Sattar Izwaini. Accelerated Strategy to Produce Arabic Translations of Modern and Future Terminologies in Sciences and Technology. Dubai Future Foundation
Sattar Izwaini. إستراتيجية متسارعة لصياغة ترجمات عربية لمصطلحات المستقبل في العلوم والتقنيات Accelerated Strategy to Produce Arabic Translations of Modern and Future Terminologies in Sciences and Technology
Zaki Aslan, Sattar Izwaini, Sattar Izwaini, Sherin Sahouri And Ghada Chater. Arabic Heritage Forum: translation and editing a collection of articles, June 2020
Sattar Izwaini, Catherine Antomarchi, Aicha Ben Abed And Zaki Aslan. Mosaiken: selected articles translated into Arabic, 18 December 2019
Sattar Izwaini And Hafsa Al-omar. The Translation of Substitution and Ellipsis in Arabic Subtitling, Journal Of Audiovisual Translation, 30 November 2019
Sattar Izwaini. The Re-Presentation of Fanon’s Les Damnés de la Terre in Arabic Translation, Interventions, 17 February 2019
Sattar Izwaini. A General Outline of Arabic Language, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2019
Sattar Izwaini, Jorge Díaz-cintas And Kristian Nikolić. Censorship and Manipulation of Arabic Subtitling, December 2017
Sattar Izwaini. Translation of taboo expressions in Arabic subtitling, 10 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2017
Sattar Izwaini. Censorship and manipulation of subtitling in the Arab world, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2017
Sattar Izwaini. Arabic Translation Studies (Volume 6,, International Journal Of Linguistics And Applied Linguistics, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2016
Sattar Izwaini. Translation of Arabic Collocation, Translation And Interpreting Studies, The Journal Of The American Translation And Interpreting Studies Association (atisa), 1 August 2016
Sattar Izwaini. The translation of Arabic lexical collocations, Translation And Interpreting Studies, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2016
Sattar Izwaini. Amateur translation in Arabic-speaking cyberspace, Perspectives: Studies In Translatology, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014
Sattar Izwaini. Translation and linguistic recycling in Arabic, Babel, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014
Sattar Izwaini. Translation of Swedish poetry, Ittihad Daily, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2013
Sattar Izwaini. The Language Element in Electronic Devices, Al-bayan Daily, June 2013
Sattar Izwaini. Arabic Metaphors in the Field of Information Technology, Al-hayat International, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2013
Sattar Izwaini. The AUS MA in Translation, the Gate to Knowledge, March 2013
Sattar Izwaini. Thoroughbred Horse or a Hybrid Car, Al-bayan Daily, March 2013
Sattar Izwaini. Teaching Translation in Higher Education Institutions, Al-khaleej Daily, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2013
Sattar Izwaini. The UNESCO and the Death of Arabic, Al-bayan Daily, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2013
Sattar Izwaini. Language Planning and National Identity, Al-bayan Daily, December 2012
Sattar Izwaini. Socio-dynamics of Arabic, Al-Bayan, Al-bayan Daily, December 2012
Sattar Izwaini. Postgraduate Translation Programs in the United Arab Emirates, Iatis Bulletin, March 2011
Sattar Izwaini. Arabic in a Computer-mediated Communication Context, 10 November 2010
Sattar Izwaini, Mahmood Hasan And Mahmood Hasan. The Castle, a literary translation & critical commentary., Metaphorses, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2010
Sattar Izwaini And Sattar Izwaini. Questions, September 2008
Sattar Izwaini. Child's Heart, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2008
Sattar Izwaini. Cross-linguistic Study of Lexical Collocations in the Language of Information Technology, Proceedings Of The Cluk 2003, The 6th Cluk Colloquium, University Of Edinburgh, 2006
Sattar Izwaini. Problems of Arabic Machine Translation: evaluation of three systems,, Proceedings Of The International Conference On Challenges Of Arabic Mt/nlp, 2006
Sattar Izwaini. A Corpus-based Study of the Translation of IT terms, Esp Across Cultures, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2005
Sattar Izwaini. Translation of the Language of Information Technology: How the Arabs and Swedes Click, Camling 2003, 2004
Sattar Izwaini. Building Specialized Corpora for Translation Studies, Proceedings Of The Workshop On Multilingual Corpora: Linguistic Requirements And Technical Perspectives, 27 March 2003
Sattar Izwaini. Corpus-based Study of Metaphor in Information Technology, Proceedings Of The Workshop On Corpus-based Approaches To Figurative Language, Corpus Lingusitcs 2003, 27 March 2003
Sattar Izwaini. Forms of Verse Translation and the Translation of Verse Form (a translation into Arabic of a paper by James Holmes), Al-hayat Al-thaqafiyah Journal, November 2002

Conference Presentations

Audiovisual Translation in the Digital World, The International Translation Forum 2023, 3 November 2023
Arabic in a Computer-Mediated Communication Context, Ats Presentations Program, 24 October 2023
Diachronic account of the evolution of Arabic Audiovisual Translation, Rewind And Fast Forward Past, Present And Future Scenarios In Audiovisual Translation, 11 October 2023
Audiovisual translation as a tool in teaching and learning of Native Language, First International Conference On Didactic Audiovisual Translation And Media Accessibility,, 23 March 2023
Audiovisual translation as a tool in teaching and learning of Native Language, Ats Lecture Series, February 2023
The Translation of Modern Arabic Literature into Swedish, Acla 2022, 16 June 2022
Arabic and the role of translation, Public Lecture, 28 December 2021
Translation Curriculum and The Role of Universities in Preparing Translators for the Job Market, Translation And Preservation Of The Memory Of The Nation, 11 May 2021
Register in Arabic Subtitling, Basrayatha Institute Of Languages Public Lectures, 24 September 2020
Cultural References in Arabic Dubbing, Fourth International Conference On Language, Linguistics, Literature And Translation: Exploring Cultural Intersections, 6 February 2020
Cultural References in Arabic Dubbing, Ats Research Seminar, 4 February 2020
Challenges of Conducting Research on Arabic Dubbing, First International Conference On Research Methods In Audiovisual Translation, 15 October 2019
Standard vs Colloquial Arabic: comparison between Egyptian and Iraqi Arabic, Cultural Program Event, 12 June 2019
Bilingual Marketing: parallel or mutual translation?, Ats Lectures Series, 9 December 2018
Training Translation Students on IT Tools, International Seminar On Translation And Interpreting, (istri) 2018, 17 October 2018
Arabic Audiovisual Translation, Public Lectures Series, 1 January 2017
The Arabic Translation Context of Fanon's Les Damnés de la Terre (معذبو الأرض), ATS, AUS., Ats Lectures Series, 1 November 2016
Al-Arabiyyah Fi Sutour,, 1 October 2016
The Translation of Arabic Literature, 12 November 2014
Compliments in Film Subtitles: A Comparative Study of Translations from English into Polish and Arabic, 6 June 2013
Conducting Research on Translation in the UAE, 2012
Conference presentation Compiling a Modern Corpus-based Collocation Dictionary of Arabic, 11 April 2011
Arabic in a Computer-mediated Communication Context, 10 November 2010
Academic Translation Programs in the UAE, 21 May 2010

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, FRG19-S-S134, AUS, June 2019 - 2020

Awards and Honors

Service Award, Abu Dhabi University, 30 June 2008

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