On the 28th and 29th of July 2020, senior students at the Department of Translation and Languages (DTL) of the Faculty of Religions and Human Sciences at Al-Maaref University presented their capstone projects in partial fulfillment of the requirements of a Bachelor of Arts in Translation and Languages for Spring 2019/2020. The students are: Fatima Al-Zahraa Mohammad Kataya, Ghadir Hussein Slim, Rim Nassif Yassine, Rana Ali Berro, Malak Mohammad Yassine, Aya Khalil Termos, Jinan Khalil Al-Kalla, Nour Al-Zahraa Mohammad Nouman Obeid, Fatima Hassan Al-Khansa, Rim Hussein AL Malla, Amal Ali Naseredine, Lama Ali Al-Outa, Iman Ahmad Hammoud, Malak Adnan Bassam, Rim Abdallah Zayour, Roba Hussein Al-Attar and Fatima Ali Shoaib.

The Examining Committee consisted of the following members:
• Ms. Zeinab Anis Jaber, DTL Chairperson
• Dr. Abir Nasereddine, DTL instructor
• Dr. Ziad Mikati, DTL instructor
• Dr. Zeina Al-Toufaily, DTL instructor

Candidates were given 15 to 20 minutes to present their work, highlighting its main parts with focus on the findings. Each presentation was then followed by questions to which the candidates duly responded.

The titles of the studies were as follows:
1. ترجمة أدب الأطفال من الإنجليزية إلى العربية بالاعتماد على الاستراتيجيات الثقافية المثلى: كتاب مذكرات طالب - العجلة الثالثة نموذجًا
• Candidates: Fatima Al-Zahraa Mohammad Kataya and Ghadir Hussein Slim
• Advisor: Dr. Ziad Mikati

2. ترجمة العناوين الإخبارية في وكالات الأنباء من اللغة الإنكليزية إلى العربية -وكالة رويترز نموذجًا
• Candidates: Rim Nassif Yassine and Rana Ali Berro
• Advisor: Dr. Ziad Mikati

3. دراسة تحليليّة في إستراتيجيَّات ترجمة عناوين الأفلام من العربيّة إلى الإنكليزيّة: ترجمة عناوين أفلام مصريّة على شبكة نتفليكس (Netflix) نموذجًا
• Candidates: Malak Mohammad Yassine and Aya Khalil Termos
• Advisor: Dr. Ziad Mikati

4. ترجمة المصطلحات الطّبيّة وتأثيرها في النّص الطّبي المترجم: مجموعة من النّصوص الطّبيّة المترجمة من الإنجليزيّة إلى العربيّة أنموذجًا
• Candidate: Jinan Khalil Al-Kalla
• Advisor: Dr. Zeina Al-Toufaily

5. Impacts of Punctuation Marks on Translation
• Candidate: Nour Al-Zahraa Mohammad Nouman Obeid
• Advisor: Dr. Zeina Al-Toufaily

6. Translating collocations from Arabic into English in the Qur'an: Surat Al-Takweer as a case study
• Candidate: Fatima Hassan Al-Khansa
• Advisor: Mrs. Zeinab Anis Jaber

7. Theatrical Translation from English into Arabic: Translation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth Play by Jabra as a Case Study
• Candidates: Rim Hussein AL Malla and Amal Ali Naseredine
• Advisor: Dr. Ziad Mikati

8. Translation of Idiomatic Expressions from English into Arabic: The Dubbed Movie “Robin Hood” as a Case Study
• Candidate: Lama Ali Al-Outa
• Advisor: Mrs. Zeinab Anis Jaber

9. Gender in Qur’an translation: The term “al Mo’men” and its derivatives as a case study
• Candidates: Iman Ahmad Hammoud and Malak Adnan Bassam
• Advisor: Mrs. Zeinab Anis Jaber

10. Translation of Metaphors from English into Arabic: Sonnet 18 of William Shakespeare as a Case Study
• Candidates: Rim Abdallah Zayour and Roba Hussein Al-Attar
• Advisor: Mrs. Zeinab Anis Jaber

11. Translation of Arabic Book Titles into English: A list of 50 book titles by famous Arab writers as a Case Study
• Candidate: Fatima Ali Shoaib
• Advisor: Mrs. Zeinab Anis Jaber

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