The Translating Cultures Lab (TCL) has been designed to implement the mission and vision of the UNESCO Chair in Translating Cultures by providing a collaborative and interdisciplinary forum for internationally recognized researchers to meet the multiple deliverables of this four-year effort.

The Lab's Objectives

  • Provide the framework and infrastructure to make progress on the Chair’s objectives.
  • Ensure that the Chair’s deliverables are accomplished in a timely manner and are of high quality.
  • Provide a platform for feedback and evaluation of processes and products of the Chair throughout its duration.
  • Develop the theoretical framework that will focus on each year’s themes.
  • Contribute to the Chair’s publication projects.
  • Organize workshops and seminars.

The Lab Executive Team

Chair, Professor Moneera Al-Ghadeer
Lab Leader
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Lab Coordinator
Umer Al Dulaimi
Research Assistant
The Chair’s Project Manager

Research Fellows

Dr. Mohammed Lafi Allwaish
Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Jouf University
2024-2025
Arab-Chinese Relations, Australian National University
2024-2025
Comparative Literature, Al-Andalus, and Latin America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2024
Translation Studies and French, University of Cambridge
2024-2025
Computational Linguistics, Computer Assisted Translation, and Machine Translation Systems and Post-editing, University of Lisbon
2025
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