Doha: Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), a member of Qatar Foundation (QF), has announced the appointment of Dr. Amal Mohammed Al Malki (pictured) as Founding Dean of its College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The college will initially offer two master’s degree programmes previously delivered through HBKU’s Translation and Interpreting Institute (TII) – an MA in Translation Studies and an MA in Audiovisual Translation – with an expanded range of degree programmes to follow in the coming years. The new college will build on the strength of TII, which was launched by Dr Al Malki in 2012.
Prior to joining HBKU, Dr Al Malki was associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU-Q), where she became Education City’s first Qatari faculty member. She first joined CMU-Q in 2005 as a visiting professor after teaching at CMU’s mother campus in Pittsburgh in the US. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature and an MA in English/Arabic Applied Linguistics and Translation from SOAS University of London.
She is a well-regarded public speaker and a published author, most notably Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media published in 2012.
Most recently, during her tenure as executive director of TII, Dr Al Malki was responsible for gaining validation for MA in Translation Studies from University of Geneva, making it HBKU’s first externally validated graduate degree.
She also ensured TII’s International Translation Conference quickly became an important annual fixture on the calendar of leading translation experts and academics.
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