Dr. Anissa Daoudi, the head of the Translation Department at the University of Birmingham, delivered a lecture at El Oued University.
Today, Dr. Anissa Daoudi, head of the Translation Department at the University of Birmingham in the UK, delivered a scientific lecture at the Faculty of Arts and Languages Eloued University.
The meeting was attended by the rector Pr. Omar Ferhati, who welcomed the guest and invited her to coordinate between the university and the University of Birmingham to establish cooperation agreements between the two universities. Also present at the meeting were Professor El Habib GUEDDA, vice-rector of external relations, Professor Bachir Menaai, vice-rector of the pedagogy, who welcomed and introduced the guest, as well as Dr. Nacer Dhehda, vice-dean of PGR, and a group of professors, doctoral students, and interested individuals.
Ms. Anissa Daoudi presented a paper entitled “Narratives and Discourse of Violence Against Women in the Black Decade”, in which she examined a variety of translated discourses on the narratives of Algerian women survivors who, as she stated, were tortured and raped by terrorist groups, recounting their stories and testimonies through the writings of several Algerian writers and journalists in Arabic and French, such as Fadila El Farouk, Saïdi Khatibi, Ahmida Ayyashi, and others; these are testimonies referring to Fadila El Farouk’s novel as the first to address rape of women during the black decade. She mentioned that translation sometimes fails to translate certain notions related to women’s linguistic systematics such as “the tied letter and the letter of modesty”, which she termed “the untranslatable”. The lecturer called for relying on Arabic additions such as Jabri, Al-Oroui, Al-Oroui, Arkoon, Al-Ghamdi, among others, to understand the reality of Arab women instead of relying on Western studies.
On this occasion, Dr. Raneen Kalthoum Jouidar, a professor at Durham University in the UK, presented an anthropological and legal intervention on the reality of minorities and international law that protects the geographical boundaries of states inherited from the colonial era. She emphasized that these minorities have continued to communicate despite the barriers of official borders imposed by colonization. It is worth noting that Dr. Raneen Kalthoum Jouidar is the daughter of the lecturer, Anissa Daoudi.
