GEORGIANA NICOAREA CONTACT INFORMATION Mailing address: 7-12 Pitar Moş str., Bucharest, Romania Phone: 0040724395719 Email: georgiana.nicoarea@gmail.com EDUCATION - Since October 2011 doctoral candidate, Doctoral School of Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Bucharest, title of the thesis: Arabic Graffiti between Tradition and Modernity. A Cultural Dimension of Political Engagement in the Arab World - October 2008 June 2010 Master in Contemporary Literary Text Translation, University of Bucharest; Major: Translation of Contemporary Arab Literature (head of promotion) - October 2003 June 2008 Bachelor in Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Bucharest; Major: Arabic Language and Literature; Minor: French Language and Literature (head of promotion) SCOLARSHIPS and GRANTS - Doctoral studies grant, University of Bucharest, 2011 - ongoing - Honors (top 1%) Master studies scholarship, University of Bucharest, 2008 2009 - Honorary (top 5%) scholarships, University of Bucharest, 2004 2008 - Bilateral Fellowship offered by the Romanian and Egyptian governments consisting in a grant covering one academic year in the Arab Republic of Egypt in the Department of Arts at the University of Cairo, 2006 2007 CERTIFICATION DIPLOMAS - Certificate of Linguistic Competence in Arabic, Advanced Level, Dar al- Ulum University, Cairo, 2007
- Best Paper Award at the Student's Research Conference organized by the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest, 2005 - Certificate of Proficiency in English, Fides Language Center, Bucharest, 2002 WORK EXPERIENCE - since October 2008 Teaching assistant, Arabic department, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest PUBLICATIONS a) ARTICLES - Graffiti and Cultural Production in Contemporary Cairo: Articulating Local and Global Elements of Popular Culture in Romano-Arabica XIII (eds: George Grigore, Laura Sitaru), Bucharest: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2013 - Cairo s New Colors: Rethinking Identity in the Graffiti of the Egyptian Revolution (to be published in The Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature in Bucharest), Bucharest: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti - Cultural Interactions of the Graffiti Subcultures in the Arab World. Between Globalization and Cosmopolitanism in Romano-Arabica XII (eds: George Grigore, Laura Sitaru), Bucharest: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2012 - Translator s interventions in the Iraqi Arabic version of Eugene Ionesco s La Leçon in Romano-Arabica VIII-X (eds: George Grigore, Laura Sitaru), Bucharest: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2011 - Equivalences sémantiques dans les traductions en français et anglais du poème «Al- Ḫamriyya» dʻibn al-fariḍ in A Festschrift for Nadia Anghelescu (eds: Andrei A. Avram, Anca Focşeneanu, George Grigore), Bucharest: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2011 b) BOOK - Mansur al-hallaj Divan Poeme mistice (Diwan al-hallaj The Diwan of Al-Hallaj), a study on the mystical writings of Mansur Al-Hallaj followed by the translation of his lyrical works from Arabic into Romanian, Bucharest: Editura Herald, 2008 c) TRANSLATIONS - Mahmoud Shukair Mozaicuri de iubire (Fusayfusa al-hubb Love Mosaiques), shortstories, translation from Arabic into Romanian, Bucharest: Editura Ars Longa, 2012
- Dinu Adam Poeme (Qasa id - Poems), translation from Romanian into Arabic, in Tunā iyyāt Taqāfiyya (Cultural Couples, Poets and Writers), an anthology of contemporary literature from Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Cyprus in Arabic translation as a result of the Meeting Cultures between the Lines Project, Ramallah: Ogarith Cultural Center, 2011 - Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Celelalte camere (Al-ghuraf al-ukhra The Other Rooms), translation from Arabic into Romanian, a collective translation by master students supervised by Prof. dr. George Grigore, head of the Arabic Department at the University of Bucharest, Bucharest: Editura Ars Longa, 2010 d) BOOK REVIEW - Tarik Sabry, Cultural Encounters in the Arab World. On Media, the Modern and the Everyday. London: I.B. Tauris, 2010, pp. 228 (ISBN 978-1-84885-359-1) in Romano-Arabica XIII, Bucharest: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti, 2013 e) TRANSLATION REVIEWS - Cairo departe de umbra piramidelor (Cairo, away from the Shadow of the Pyramids) (Taxi by Khaled al-khamissi, trad. Laura Sitaru) in Ziarul Financiar - Juha un erou al culturii populare arabe (Juha A Hero of Arabic Popular Culture) (Peripeţiile lui Juha năzdrăvanul trad. Gabriel Biţună) in Ziarul Financiar PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC EVENTS - 27 th 28 th of June 2013 Representations of Authority in the Graffiti of the Egyptian Spring at Artscapes: Urban Art and the Public An Interdisciplinary Conference on Art and Urban Spaces, University of Kent - 16 th 27 th of September 2012 Graffiti in the Arab World Youth identity between tradition and modernity, paper presented at the Summer Academy Aesthetics and Politics Counter-narratives, new publics and the role of dissent in the Arab World, Cairo, Egypt - 19 th of May 2012 From City Walls to Facebook Walls. The Cybernatization of Urban Territoriality in the Graffiti of the Arab Spring, paper presented at the international Colloquium 55 years of Arab Studies in Romania, organized by the Center of Arab Studies at the University of Bucharest - 6 th 8 th of May 2011 participation at Culture 2007-2013 Meeting Cultures between the Lines Symposium, with translations from Arabic (Mahmud Shuqayr short stories) and into Arabic (Dinu Adam poems) and a talk: Translating Palestinian Literature in Romania, Ramallah, Palestinian Territories
PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL CONFERENCES - December 8 th, 2012 Cairo s New Colors: Rethinking Identity in the Graffiti of the Egyptian Revolution paper presented at Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature in Bucharest - March 3 rd, 2012 Constructing Identity: The Reception of the Egyptian Graffiti of the Arab Spring in the International Media, paper presented at Graduate Students Conference, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature in Bucharest - May 21 st, 2011 Translator s interventions in the Iraqi Arabic version of Eugene Ionesco s La Leçon, paper presented at The Islamic Space: cultural and linguistic diversity, a colloquium organized by the Center for Arab Studies and the University of Bucharest - May 22 nd, 2010 Translation versus Adaptation in the Iraqi Arabic Version of La Leçon by Eugen Ionesco, paper presented at the Students' Research Conference, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature in Bucharest - October 31 st, 2009 Politeness Strategies in Translation: La leçon by Eugen Ionesco in Iraqi Arabic, a Case Study, paper presented at Annual Conference of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature in Bucharest - April 12 nd, 2009 The Equivalence of mystical terminology in the English and French translations of Al-Ḫamriyya by Ibn al-fariḍ paper presented at the Students' Research Conference - May 21 st, 2005 Jesus in the Koran, paper presented at the Students' Research Conference (Best Paper Award) PARTICIPATION IN CULTURAL EVENTS - March 27 th, 2013 co-organiser of La Journée Franco-Arabe, an event hosted by the French Institute of Bucharest - March 14 th, 2012 Mahmoud Darwish: the Voice of Palestinian Identity a talk given at the National Day of Palestinian Culture - January 20 th, 2012 The Internet and the Arab World, a talk given at the Center for Arab Studies of the University of Bucharest - November 29 th, 2011 Freedom and Exile in Jabra Ibrahim s Jabra Poetry, a talk given at Jabra Ibrahim Jabra and the Palestinian Identity in Exile, an event organized by UN Romania
OTHER ACTIVITIES - Since December 2011, member of the Center for Arabic Studies of the University of Bucharest - Since December 2011, secretary of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures - March 2011, member in the European project Culture 2007-2013 Meeting Cultures between the Lines dedicated to the translation of contemporary literature of Palestine, Romania, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece and Cyprus; I have participated with translations from and into Arabic at the Symposium held between 6-8th of May, 2011 in Ramallah, Palestinian Territories - July August 2011, member in the Admission Committee of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, representing the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature - January 2011, creating and administrating the website of the Arabic Department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures (http://araba.lls.unibuc.ro/) - 2008 2012 representative of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature in the organization committee of the Annual University Fair, held each spring LANGUAGE SKILLS Languages: Romanian (native) Arabic (proficiency in reading, writing and speaking) French (proficiency in reading, writing and speaking) English (proficiency in reading, writing and speaking) German B1