CURRENT POSITION

September 2016 - Present:

• Chair of English Department
• Coordinator of MA Program in Translation & Interpreting English  Department,  Al-Quds  University,  East  Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine.

Main duties:    

• Developing a strategic plan for the department that fits with the university’s mission.
• Managing day-to-day administrative responsibilities of the department.
• Promoting excellence in teaching, research and service at the department.
• Preparing each semester’s schedule.
• Conduct monthly department meetings.
• Representing the department in the faculty council and the postgraduate studies council.
• Recruit  and  coordinate  the  evaluation  of  part-time faculty and lecturers as necessary and appropriate.
• Promoting departmental harmony.

Courses taught:  
Translation theories, seminar in translation, introduction to translation, translation practice I, translation practice II, communication skills, writing I, writing II, writing III, English for Humanities.

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

June–September 2009: Hourly-Paid Lecturer of Translation Studies Courses taught:

• School of Languages    and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom.
• Translation Project (MA Program in Translation Studies).

September 2002- August 2004:Lecturer of English Language. Courses taught:

• Languages Centre, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine.
• Remedial English, English 104, Communication skills, advanced grammar.

July 1999-July 2001:Translation Project Manager / The Palestinian Group for Management & Development, Ramallah, Occupied Palestine.

• Managing  projects  from  launch  to  handover  and provide the required pre- and post-sales support.
• Assigning work to freelance translators.
• Proofreading texts translated by other in-house and freelance translators prior to delivery to the client.
• Contributing to terminology and reference databases.

RESEARCH

Research Interests
Sociological approaches to translation, translation and conflict, translation and ideology, political discourse analysis, translation, politics and media, Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Refereed Journal Articles

• Ayyad, A. (2012). Uncovering ideologies: A case study of Arabic and Hebrew translations of the roadmap plan. In L. P. Gonzalez (Ed.).Translation and the genealogy of conflict. Journal of Language and Politics, 11(2), 252-270.
• Ayyad, A. (2010). Moors in Madrid. Journalism, 11(6), 737-741.

Book Chapters

• Ayyad, A., & Pym, A. (2012). Translator interventions in Middle-East peace initiatives: Detours in the roadmap. In B. Adab, G. Shreve, and A. Neubert (Eds.). Discourses of translation (Festschrift in Honour of Christina Schäffner) (pp. 83-99). Bern: Peter Lang.

Recent Conference Papers

• Ayyad, A. (May, 2016). Non-professional translation of political texts in times of conflict:  The case of the Arab peace initiative. Third international Conference on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation, Institute of Translation and Interpreting, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, 5-7 May 2016, Winterthur, Switzerland.
• Ayyad, A. (November, 2015). Political Translation: The Roadmap plan in Arabic and Hebrew. The Forum for Arab and International Relations Annual conference, Translation and the Problematics of Cross-cultural Understanding, 25-26 November 2015, Doha, Qatar.
• Ayyad,  A.  (October, 2015).  Translating  occupied Jerusalem:  A  Palestinian-Israeli  struggle for power and legitimacy. Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation (OCCT) Annual Conference, Prismatic Translation, St Anne’s College, Oxford University, 1-3 October 2015, Oxford, UK.
• Ayyad, A. (May, 2015). Translation and political marketing: Selling the Geneva accord to the Palestinians and Israelis. Translation in Transition Conference, Barnard College, Columbia University, 1-2 May 2015, New York City, USA.
• Ayyad,  A.  (March,  2015).  Translation  and  mobilizing  public  opinion:  Selling  the  Arab  peace initiative to Israel. Sixth Annual International Translation Conference, Translating the Gulf: Beyond Fault Lines.  Hamad Bin Khalifa University, 23-34 March 2015, Doha, Qatar.

MA supervision

• Yaseen Alsayed (2016). Translating political ideology: The case of English translations of the Islamic resistance movement. Al-Quds University, East Jerusalem, Palestine.

MA External Examination

• Ahmad Shayeb (2016). Strategies used in translating into English semiotic signs in ‘Umrah and Hajj guidelines’. An Najah University, Nablus, Palestine.
• Yasmeen  Mohamad  (2015).  Translation  with  Shift  in  Genre:  The  Case  of  Translating  Niza Qabbani’s Poetry into Rap Songs. An Najah University, Nablus, Palestine.

TRAINING COURSES

2-4 September 2013: Research Training in Translation Studies -  British Institute, Amman, Jordan.

5-7 September 2013: Symposium on Translation and Interpreting as a Social Practice - University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan.

20 December 2008: Public Service Interpreters Training - Absolute Interpreting and Translation, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

• Simultaneous, consecutive and conference interpreting.
• Time management and conflict of interests.

19 April 2008: Skills and Tools for Professional Translators - Amicus TransTec Ltd, Birmingham, United Kingdom.

• CAT tools (SDL Trados, Dejavu, Wordfast, concordance).
• Machine Translation and terminology management.
• Sales and presentations skills for translators.
• Translation brief and the art of negotiations with clients.

3-12 September 2005: CETRA Translation Studies Summer School - Organized by CETRA Summer School, Misano, Italy.

19-23 July 2004: Training Seminar for Teachers of Translation - The Consortium of the Training of Translation Teachers (CTTT) and the Intercultural   Studies   Group   of   the   Universitat   Rovira   i   Virgili, Tarragona, Spain.

• Principles of interactive education.
• Curriculum and syllabus design & translators’ training.
• Translation memories and electronic tools for translators.