Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Salah Basalamah interviewed in Ottawa by Anthony Pym, November 10, 2017.
arts.uottawa.ca/translation/people/basalamah-salah

Prof. Basalamah's view on a wider discourse on translation can be found here:
https://dtieao.uab.cat/doletiana/4Documents/S_Basalamah_De_la_cultura_a_la_traslation_Fr.pdf

The discussion of cultural translation in the journal Translation Studies is here:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14781700902937730

He is in part criticizing this paper by Pym, which is seen as a "witch hunt":
researchgate.net/publication/255665083_ON_EMPIRICISM_AND_BAD_PHILOSOPHY_IN_TRANSLATION_STUDIES

The last cut in the video is because someone knocked on the door -- it is not because the argument became heated!

More translation scholars here: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5DB4C984336E8BE7