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Dr. Mahmoud Muhammad Alhirthani
Assistant Professor
Dr. Mahmoud Muhammad Alhirthani
Assistant Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies
MA in Bilingual Translation
Entity
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Program
Master of Arts in Translation Studies
Divison
Translation and Interpreting Studies Department
Biography
Dr. Mahmoud Alhirthani has been in the field of translation for the last twenty five years. He has been teaching translation, conducting research on translation and translating from English into Arabic. Dr. Alhirthani has a good number of refereed research papers and books published in well-renowned and award-winning cultural venues in and outside the Arab World.
Dr. Alhirthani is a translation teacher and consultant with a wide variety of courses taught at graduate and postgraduate level. He is experienced in administration as a leader of study teams and teaching staff as well as executing workshops and participating in conference committees. He has experience in course and program designing for students at undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Alhirthani has refereed a good number of postgraduate theses in translation and intercultural studies, locally and internationally.
PhD in Translation and Intercultural Studies
The University of Manchester; Manchester, UK
2009
MA in Bilingual Translation
The University of Westminster; London, UK
2002
BA in English Literature
The Islamic University; Gaza, Palestine
1998
Assistant Professor
College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
2022 - Present
- Alhirthani, M. (2022). The periphery’s translation of the centre: Trump’s Middle East peace plan in Arabic. Special issue of The Translator 27(4). Hutchings, S. (ed.) Translation and the Ethics of Diversity.
- Alhirthani, M. (Translation into Arabic). (2022) Brownlie's principles of public international law, Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies.
- Alhirthani, M. (2022). The periphery’s translation of the centre: Trump’s Middle East peace plan in Arabic. Special issue of The Translator 27(4). Hutchings, S. (ed.) Translation and the Ethics of Diversity.
- Alhirthani, M. (Tr.) (2021) Enlightenment on the eve or revolution: the Egyptian and Syrian debates, Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies.
- Alhirthani, M. (Translation into Arabic; forthcoming). Gordon, N. and Nicola, P. (2020) Human shields: a history of people in the line of fire. University of California Press.
- 2019, Erasmus + grant (International Credit Mobility Programme).
- 2016 - 2017, Fulbright grant from US State Department to conduct research at Rutgers University, US.
- 2013, Alqsa University Award for Translation.
- 2005 - 2009, Alaqsa University grant to pursue Ph.D in the UK.