Mona Baker
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Mona Baker is an Egyptian professor of translation studies at the University of Manchester (UMIST) in England,[1] and a signatory of the 2002 open letter to boycott Israeli institutions. She received much criticism and created great controversy when she removed two Israeli academics, Dr. Miriam Shlesinger of Bar-Ilan University and Professor Gideon Toury of Tel Aviv University, Israel, from the editorial boards of her journals Translator and Translation Studies Abstracts, based on their affiliation to Israeli institutions.[2][3]
She is also an editor of "The Translator" and editorial director of St. Jerome Publishing. Her personal website provides resources on two main areas: the Middle East conflict, and research in translation and intercultural studies. The site also has sections on the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, Palestinian universities under Israeli siege, Middle East facts and boycott of Israeli products and services.
