Multilingual Online Academic Collaborations as Resistance

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This book details online academic collaborations between universities in the UK and USA and the Islamic University of Gaza. The chapters recount the challenges and successes of online collaborations which aimed to maintain a flow of information to and from the Gaza Strip, despite a continuing blockade by Israel and Egypt, and to forge relationships between individuals, institutions and cultures. The chapters examine, from different perspectives, what happens when languages and the internet facilitate encounters, and the fundamental importance this has as a form of defiance and of resistance to the physical confinement experienced by Gaza's academics, students and the general population. They highlight the limitations of multilingual and intercultural encounters when they are deprived of the sensory proximity of face-to-face situations and what is lost in the translation of languages, practices and experiences from the 'real' to the 'virtual' world.

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