Hisham M. Ali
List of John Benjamins publications in which Hisham M. Ali is involved.
2025 One language, many hierarchies: Corpus — status interplay in intralingual translation between Classical Arabic and Egyptian Arabic Language Problems and Language Planning: Online-First Articles | Article
Intralingual translation in Arabic has been treated as a tool of simplification, while its implications for language planning remain underexplored. Using al-Shāmilī’s 2016 translation of al-Maʿarrī’s Risālat al-Ghufrān into semi-literate spoken Arabic as a case study, this article argues that… read more
2025 The role of translation in language standardization: The case of Egypt Pragmatics: Online-First Articles | Article
This article contributes to the debate on language standardization from below by examining the role of translation in the struggle to standardize ʿāmmiyya as a national language in Egypt. Drawing on Haugen’s model of language standardization, the article investigates the sociolinguistic and… read more
2024 Bourdieu’s trajectory concept as an approach to microhistorical research in translation Translation in Society 3:2, pp. 133–155 | Article
This article explores the potential of Bourdieu’s trajectory concept as an approach to microhistorical research, using the life history of Egypt’s late Minister of Culture Tharwat Okasha as a case study. The focus throughout is on Okasha’s multipositionality throughout his trajectory as a… read more
2023 Power dynamics in Egypt’s censorship of Gibran’s The Prophet Babel 69:5, pp. 581–597 | Article
After more than seventy years, when Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 masterpiece The Prophet had circulated freely in Egypt, censorship authorities banned the book in 1999 and 2011. This article explores the sociopolitical context surrounding the censorship of The Prophet and its Arabic translations, with a… read more