Behrouz Karoubi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Behrouz Karoubi is involved.
2025 Rethinking censorship in translation: A Bourdieusian field approach Translation Spaces 14:2, pp. 171–194 | Article
This article critically addresses the contemporary challenge of broadening the concept of censorship, a consequence of theories emphasizing constitutive modes of censorship. These theories often equate all forms of exclusion and control with censorship, creating ambiguity around the concept. To… read more
2025 Threads of control: Understanding sources of censorial power in translation FORUM 23:1, pp. 27–42 | Article
This article delves into the intricate relationship between translation and censorship, unraveling the multifaceted tapestry woven by historical, societal, economic, and personal threads. Exploring the genealogy of censorship, the study identifies four distinct sources of censorial power — state… read more
2025 Translation censorship: The Iranian situation Babel 71:2, pp. 213–238 | Article
The imperative significance of translation and translators, the existence of multiple synchronic translations of the same literary works, and the stringent censorship enforced by a totalitarian theocratic regime on translators are among numerous facets that render the Iranian context a promising… read more
2016 Translation quality assessment demystified Babel 62:2, pp. 253–277 | Article
The current paper aims at developing a conceptual framework to describe translation quality assessment as a complex process of decision making. It starts with a discussion about the great amount of confusion that exists in the usage of terminologies related to the area of translation quality… read more
2013 Translating gender between English and Persian: Strategies and beyond Babel 59:4, pp. 473–497 | Article
The main objective of this article is to shed some light on the much-neglected area of translating gender between Persian and English. More specifically, it sets out to investigate the different strategies employed for translating the textual indicators of gender in the specified corpus of the… read more