Professor Basyouni Hamada is currently, he is serving as the Editor of Digital Journalism Special Issue on “ Journalism and Digital Authoritarianism”. Professor Hamada has a B.A., an M.A. and a Ph.D in Mass Communication from Cairo University, Egypt.
In this talk, Professor Abdel-Haleem will describe some details of why and how he approached the task of translating the Qur’an into English. He will list some criteria for what makes a good translation. He will discuss his goals, problems, strategies and main sources with emphasis on the importance of context and stylistic and rhetorical features of the text of the Qur’an and how these affect the translation.
