Today, Dr. Anisa Daoudi, Head of the Department of Translation at the University of Birmingham, UK, delivered a scientific lecture at the Faculty of Literature and Languages of Echahid Hamma Lakhdar University.

The meeting was attended by the Rector of the University, Prof

Omar Farhati, who welcomed the guest and invited her to coordinate between the university and the University of Birmingham to conclude cooperation agreements between the two parties. The meeting was also attended by the Vice Rector in charge of External Relations, Prof.Guedda Elhabib Habib, in charge of Pedagogy Professor Bachir Mennai, and the Dean of the Faculty, Prof. Dalal Wachen, who welcomed and introduced the guest professor, in addition to the presence of her Vice Dean for studies, Dr. Nasser Dahdah, and a group of professors, doctoral students, and those interested.

Professor Anisa Daoudi presented an intervention marked by narratives and discourse of violence against women in the black decade, where she dealt with a number of translated discourses about the narratives of Algerian women survivors who were subjected – as she said – to torture and rape at the hands of terrorist groups. They narrated their stories and testimonies through the writings of a number of Algerian writers and journalists in both Arabic and French languages, such as Fadila Al-Farouk, Saidi Khatibi, Hamida Al-Ayashi, and others.

She refers to Fadela Al-Farouq’s novel as the first novel to talk about the rape of women in the Red Decade. She stated that translation is sometimes unable to translate some concepts related to the semantic system of women, such as “Ta’a al-Marbouta” and “Taa al-Khajal” and called it “the non-translatable.” She called for relying on Arab additions, such as the projects of Al-Djabri, Al-Arwi, , Arkoun, Al-Ghamdi and others, to understand the reality of Arab women instead of relying on Western studies.

On the occasion, Dr. Raneen Kulthum Guidar, a professor at the British University of Durham, presented an anthropological and legal intervention on the reality of ethnicities and international law that protects the geographical borders of countries inherited from the colonial era. She emphasized that the peoples of these ethnicities continued to communicate with each other despite the official border barriers set by colonialism. For reference, Dr. Raneen Kulthum Guidar is the daughter of lecturer Anisa Daoudi.