This volume affords an opportunity to reconsider international connections and conflicts from the specific standpoint of translation as a dynamic, sociocultural activity, carried out and influenced by numerous stakeholders. The various chapters contained in this volume survey a wide range of languages and cultures, and they all pivot around the relationships that can be established between translation and ideology, re-narration, identity, cultural representation and knowledge reproduction. The ultimate aim is to shed light on the actual act of translating in which the self is well-presented and beautified and the other is deformed and made ugly. In this volume, due consideration is given to the main frames (be they characterization, interpretive or identity frames) as well as to the nonverbal factors that play a fundamental role in forming the final shape of the translated product.

Ali Almanna holds a PhD in Translation Studies from Durham University and an MA in Linguistics and Translation from Westminster University. Currently, he is Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Al-Zahra College for Women in Oman, where he teaches linguistics and translation. His recent publications include The Routledge Course in Translation Annotation, Semantics for Translation Students, The Nuts and Bolts of Arabic-English Translation and The Arabic-English Translator as Photographer. Juan José Martínez Sierra works as a senior lecturer in the Department of English and German Studies at the Universitat de València, where he teaches Written and Audiovisual Translation, Intercultural Communication and English Language at undergraduate and graduate levels. He specializes in the teaching and researching of Audiovisual Translation from an intercultural perspective.