The ICESCO-EUROMED Chair "Arts, Societies and CIVILIZATIONS" is organizing a Master class on the theme "Translation and the Dialogue of Cultures".

As part of the 2023-2024 activities of the ICESCO-EUROMED Chair "Arts, Societies and CIVILISATIONS", a Master class was held on Wednesday, October 18, 2023, led by Ms. Rajae Talbi (poet, writer, and translator) on the theme "Translation and the Dialogue of Cultures".

The debate, developed from the reflection she initiated, focused on key questions: 1. the role of Translation in building peace, the rise of interculturalism, and the transmission of knowledge. 2. The practice of translation as work on one's self-image and the perception of the other. 3. Translation and its demands on both the translator and the reader.

The open debate with students from the Translation program allowed for an even richer extension of these lines of thought, highlighting, among other things, the problems of Translation facing the challenges of artificial intelligence, of Translation confronted with the evolution of languages as they are currently affected by social media, and the isolation in which the translator finds themselves, forced to constantly invent their own tools.

This Master class actively functioned as a true laboratory for analyzing the mechanisms of Translation and its epistemological foundations.