Mohammed Al‐Batineh
Biographic Data
| ID | 6545581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mohammed Al‐Batineh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mohammed |
| FAMILY NAME | Al‐Batineh |
| SIGNATURE | AL BATINEH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Arab Emirates University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8219-9900 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Arabic Video Game Localization
The Arabic-speaking gaming market has grown substantially, yet no review has mapped the scholarly literature on Arabic video game localization. This scoping review, following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines, covered literature published between 2010 and the pre-specified eligibility cut-off of 31 December 2025. Database searches (Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, ProQuest, and the John Benjamins e-Platform) were conducted between January and Marc…
Translating taboo language in Arabic game localisation
This study investigates the translation of profanity in the Arabic localisation of The Witcher III (CD Projekt Red 2015), focusing on cutscenes and in-game dialogue. A parallel corpus of 300,000 English words and 265,000 Arabic words was studied using concordance analysis to identify strategies for translating profane expressions. The findings reveal a predominant use of euphemism (52%) and taboo-to-non-taboo substitution (34%), with deletion acc…
Learning to question the machine
This study examines how structured prompt literacy instruction shaped students’ use of ChatGPT in a humanities-based English as a Foreign Language (EFL) mythology course. Drawing on self-regulated learning (SRL) as the analytic frame, and using situated learning and GenAI literacy as lenses, the study explores how students used AI as coach and mentor during a 15-week intervention. Data consisted of reflective journals, semi-structured interviews,…
Title translation in documentary films
Titles have multiple functions, including attracting the audience to engage with the content. Maintaining these functions across languages and cultures poses challenges for translators. This study investigates the translation techniques employed in translating documentary film titles and examines the extent to which the resulting translations fulfill their referential and appellative functions from the target audience’s perspective. For that purp…
Visual narratives
This study explores how visual and textual elements on book covers frame and shape reception of translated literary works. Through a comparative analysis of book covers of five works by acclaimed Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh, this paper investigates the transformation of paratextual elements between the original Arabic editions and their English translations published in the United States and United Kingdom. To this end, the researchers adopte…
Potential Use of ChatGPT-4 for Translating the Emirati Dialect Into English
For translators and conventional machine systems, Arabic dialects pose translation challenges including scarce linguistic resources and the complexity of nonstandard Arabic. However, large language models (LLMs) are able to understand contextual meaning and showcase promising translation capabilities. This study investigates ChatGPT-4’s understanding and translations of five excerpts, including 39 lexical items, from the Emirati dialect into Engl…
Challenges in Interpreting English Passive Voice Into Arabic
This study examines the significant challenges faced by Arabic-speaking student interpreters in rendering English passive voice constructions into Arabic during simultaneous interpretation. Due to structural and functional disparities between the two languages, particularly the rarity of passive constructions and explicit agentive phrases in Arabic, interpreting the English passive voice presents substantial obstacles. The research aims to identi…
Audio accessibility in Arabic game localization
This study explores audio accessibility in Arabic-localized video games by examining nonverbal subtitles for players who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing (NV-SDH) in the English game Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018). A multimodal bilingual corpus of screen recordings from the game was qualitatively analyzed using NVivo. A three-layered tagging framework was developed in NVivo to tag the corpus and classify the types of NV-SDH, their functions, and …
Translating Emirati literature
This study investigates the translation of Emirati culture-specific items (CSIs) into English, a rarely discussed topic in Arabic translation studies. It focuses on a collection of short stories, Dubai Tales , authored by renowned Emirati author Mohammed Al Murr and translated into English by Peter Clark. The short stories vividly portray Emirati daily life, relationships and cultural values, making it an ideal set of data for a case study of tra…
Feminist translation and paratextual mediation
This study discusses feminist translation through the English rendition of memoirs by two influential Arab feminists—Huda Shaarawi and Anbara Salam Khalidi—pivotal figures in Arab feminist discourse. The analysis reveals that both book covers and titles undergo changes, presenting two different versions tailored to Western readership to capture their attention and align with their expectations. Furthermore, the paratext produced by Shaarawi’s fem…
Translation and localization of food menus on mobile delivery apps in the United Arab Emirates
Beyond Translation
This paper provides a thorough evaluation of the Arabic localisation of The Witcher 3, a well-known video game in the Arab world. It analyses three game assets including the User Interface (UI), cinematics and voice-overs. To this end, the researcher collected two multimodal corpora of screenshots and video recordings taken from the actual video game. The data was analysed in two stages. The first stage involved categorizing the content of the tw…
Beyond aid
This article navigates the complexity of the humanitarian system, the potential of the humanitarian-development nexus, and the commitments of the World Humanitarian Summit of 2016 as a backdrop to designing sustainable interpreter training programmes. It argues that these programmes must be locally designed to respond to real needs and developed and implemented by local actors living and working in the contexts where building trained interpreter …
Translation hacking in Arabic video game localization
The present article discusses the notion of translation hacking and attempts to chart the history of this practice in the Arabic context. It also discusses the current practices of translation hacking by examining the work of a well-organized online community of Arab translation hackers called Games in Arabic (GiA). To this end, the study adopts two methods for data collection. First, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the first trans…
Current trends in localizing video games into Arabic
The present paper investigates a largely ignored topic in Arabic translation studies: video game localization. It attempts to establish scholarly discussion about this field by analyzing the current localization practices used in the Arabic video game market and Arab gamers’ response to localized video games. To this end, the paper analyzes officially localized Arabic video games from 2005-2020 to reveal common practices adopted by developers whe…
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Beyond aid
This article navigates the complexity of the humanitarian system, the potential of the humanitarian-development nexus, and the commitments of the World Humanitarian Summit of 2016 as a backdrop to designing sustainable interpreter training programmes. It argues that these programmes must be locally designed to respond to real needs and developed and implemented by local actors living and working in the contexts where building trained interpreter …
Translation hacking in Arabic video game localization
The present article discusses the notion of translation hacking and attempts to chart the history of this practice in the Arabic context. It also discusses the current practices of translation hacking by examining the work of a well-organized online community of Arab translation hackers called Games in Arabic (GiA). To this end, the study adopts two methods for data collection. First, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the first trans…
Current trends in localizing video games into Arabic
The present paper investigates a largely ignored topic in Arabic translation studies: video game localization. It attempts to establish scholarly discussion about this field by analyzing the current localization practices used in the Arabic video game market and Arab gamers’ response to localized video games. To this end, the paper analyzes officially localized Arabic video games from 2005-2020 to reveal common practices adopted by developers whe…
Beyond Translation
This paper provides a thorough evaluation of the Arabic localisation of The Witcher 3, a well-known video game in the Arab world. It analyses three game assets including the User Interface (UI), cinematics and voice-overs. To this end, the researcher collected two multimodal corpora of screenshots and video recordings taken from the actual video game. The data was analysed in two stages. The first stage involved categorizing the content of the tw…
Translating Emirati literature
This study investigates the translation of Emirati culture-specific items (CSIs) into English, a rarely discussed topic in Arabic translation studies. It focuses on a collection of short stories, Dubai Tales , authored by renowned Emirati author Mohammed Al Murr and translated into English by Peter Clark. The short stories vividly portray Emirati daily life, relationships and cultural values, making it an ideal set of data for a case study of tra…
Feminist translation and paratextual mediation
This study discusses feminist translation through the English rendition of memoirs by two influential Arab feminists—Huda Shaarawi and Anbara Salam Khalidi—pivotal figures in Arab feminist discourse. The analysis reveals that both book covers and titles undergo changes, presenting two different versions tailored to Western readership to capture their attention and align with their expectations. Furthermore, the paratext produced by Shaarawi’s fem…
Translation and localization of food menus on mobile delivery apps in the United Arab Emirates
Title translation in documentary films
Titles have multiple functions, including attracting the audience to engage with the content. Maintaining these functions across languages and cultures poses challenges for translators. This study investigates the translation techniques employed in translating documentary film titles and examines the extent to which the resulting translations fulfill their referential and appellative functions from the target audience’s perspective. For that purp…
Visual narratives
This study explores how visual and textual elements on book covers frame and shape reception of translated literary works. Through a comparative analysis of book covers of five works by acclaimed Lebanese author Hanan al-Shaykh, this paper investigates the transformation of paratextual elements between the original Arabic editions and their English translations published in the United States and United Kingdom. To this end, the researchers adopte…
Potential Use of ChatGPT-4 for Translating the Emirati Dialect Into English
For translators and conventional machine systems, Arabic dialects pose translation challenges including scarce linguistic resources and the complexity of nonstandard Arabic. However, large language models (LLMs) are able to understand contextual meaning and showcase promising translation capabilities. This study investigates ChatGPT-4’s understanding and translations of five excerpts, including 39 lexical items, from the Emirati dialect into Engl…
Challenges in Interpreting English Passive Voice Into Arabic
This study examines the significant challenges faced by Arabic-speaking student interpreters in rendering English passive voice constructions into Arabic during simultaneous interpretation. Due to structural and functional disparities between the two languages, particularly the rarity of passive constructions and explicit agentive phrases in Arabic, interpreting the English passive voice presents substantial obstacles. The research aims to identi…
Audio accessibility in Arabic game localization
This study explores audio accessibility in Arabic-localized video games by examining nonverbal subtitles for players who are d/Deaf and hard of hearing (NV-SDH) in the English game Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018). A multimodal bilingual corpus of screen recordings from the game was qualitatively analyzed using NVivo. A three-layered tagging framework was developed in NVivo to tag the corpus and classify the types of NV-SDH, their functions, and …
Arabic Video Game Localization
The Arabic-speaking gaming market has grown substantially, yet no review has mapped the scholarly literature on Arabic video game localization. This scoping review, following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines, covered literature published between 2010 and the pre-specified eligibility cut-off of 31 December 2025. Database searches (Scopus, Web of Science, Google Scholar, ProQuest, and the John Benjamins e-Platform) were conducted between January and Marc…
Translating taboo language in Arabic game localisation
This study investigates the translation of profanity in the Arabic localisation of The Witcher III (CD Projekt Red 2015), focusing on cutscenes and in-game dialogue. A parallel corpus of 300,000 English words and 265,000 Arabic words was studied using concordance analysis to identify strategies for translating profane expressions. The findings reveal a predominant use of euphemism (52%) and taboo-to-non-taboo substitution (34%), with deletion acc…
Learning to question the machine
This study examines how structured prompt literacy instruction shaped students’ use of ChatGPT in a humanities-based English as a Foreign Language (EFL) mythology course. Drawing on self-regulated learning (SRL) as the analytic frame, and using situated learning and GenAI literacy as lenses, the study explores how students used AI as coach and mentor during a 15-week intervention. Data consisted of reflective journals, semi-structured interviews,…
Arabic (9 works) · Translation Studies and Practices (8 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Digital Games and Media (4 works) · History (4 works) · Subtitles and Audiovisual Media (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Multimedia (3 works)