Ahmad Al-Harahsheh
Biographic Data
| ID | 8587455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ahmad Al-Harahsheh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ahmad |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Harahsheh |
| SIGNATURE | AL-HARAHSHEH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yarmouk University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9381-641X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Translating food idioms across the english arabic language divide
Idiomatic expressions, especially those rooted in the universal domain of food, represent one of the most culture-embedded and translation-difficult forms of language. The current study aims to examine the translation of twenty English food idioms into Arabic and twenty Arabic food idioms into English by human professional translators, as well as two of the most prominent large language models (LLMs): ChatGPT (GPT-4o) and Google Gemini Advanced. …
ElevenLabs Voice Cloning
The study investigates the efficiency of ElevenLabs voice cloning software in dubbing Egyptian humor in Instagram reels into English. Furthermore, it aims at examining how the replication of tonal pitch nuances and original actors’ voices influence the translatability of humor into the target language. To examine the transfer of cultural and pragmatic aspects of humor, the study conducts multi-layer analysis for eight reels by adopting a multi-mo…
A legal semiotic analysis of the English translation of Jordan’s Child Rights Law
This study aims to examine the English translation of Jordan’s Child Rights Law No. 17 of 2022 from a legal semiotic analysis, examining the construction, mediation, and recontextualization of meaning in the process of translation. The study follows an empirical research approach framework, and the quantitative analysis of signs examines the relationship between the original text and the translated text based on (Alowedi). The analysis reveals th…
Post-Divorce Autonomy and Resilience Among Palestinian Women in Facebook Support Group
This qualitative study analyzes fifty anonymized posts from Palestinian Facebook support groups to understand how women rebuild identity and assert agency after divorce. Thematic analysis revealed six key themes: the need for self care, catalysts for separation, verbal and emotional abuse, conflicted love, supportive communities, and financial autonomy. The findings show that digital solidarity and economic empowerment facilitate decision making …
Subtitling Jordanian cultural expressions into English on Netflix
The present study is a descriptive analysis of subtitling in the Jordanian Netflix show, AlRawabi School for Girls Season 2, specifically, the translation of Jordanian cultural expressions from Arabic to English. It focuses on the role of multimodal elements in conveying meaning and the challenges subtitlers face in the process. The authors examine the strategies proposed by various scholars to address these challenges. This study used 50 example…
Strategies in Subtitling Jordanian Dialect on Netflix
This study explores the challenges faced by Netflix subtitlers and the strategies used to translate Jordanian dialectal expressions into English in the Netflix miniseries AlRawabi School for Girls. The corpus of this study consists of 50 authentic examples extracted from the series. Adopting a descriptive approach to translation studies, as suggested by Gideon (1995), our analysis reveals three major findings relevant to subtitling Jordanian dial…
Achieving fidelity through self-translation
This study investigates whether fidelity was achieved in the self-translation of Friday sermons by imam Mohammed Ewes. Ewes is an Egyptian Muslim imam who immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1996. When writing this paper, he had been preaching at Al-Birr Mosque in London for 25 years. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, he is one of the few Muslim imams in the Islamic world to have self-translated and compiled his religious sermons into a sing…
The rhetorical feature of chiasmus in the Quran and its translation into English
The study aimed to investigate the linguistic functions, patterns and translation of chiasmus in the Quran. The sample of the study consisted of 32 different verses from the Quran accompanied with four reliable translations of the Quran, namely Palmer, Arberry, Pickthall and Yusuf Ali to examine how these chiasms translated into English. The study relied on Nida’s (1964) formal approach to translation as a theoretical framework. The study conclud…
Islamic Discourse, Ideology and Translation
Ideology is a critical term in the domain of translation. This study aimed at identifying the ideological implications behind the translator’s lexical choices in Qutb’s Milestones into English. It also investigated the ideological, cultural and religious impacts that affect the flowing of meaning for the target audience. The sample of the study was Sayyid Qutb’scontroversial Islamic book ‘Milestones.’ The book was considered a manifesto of Muslim…
Think Aloud Protocol in Translating Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani’s Poetry
This study sets out to investigate the usability of Think Aloud Protocol (TAP) – in translating Sheikh Jassim Al Thani’s poetry into English, which is an example of Nabati poetry. The study was conducted on two groups of MA graduates in translation studies: Qataris and non-Qataris. The approach used in this study is process-oriented, and therefore it illuminates the strategies that translators use to overcome challenges during the translation pro…
A Conversation Analysis of self-initiated repair structures in Jordanian Spoken Arabic
This article studies the Conversation Analysis (CA) of self-initiated repair structures in everyday conversations in Jordanian Spoken Arabic (JSA). It aims to cast light on self-initiated repairs practised by Jordanians. The data were collected in 2010; 18 dyadic-videotaped conversations totalling about nine hours, mixed and single-sex, were conducted at Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan. The data analysed include 1595 self-initiated repairs. The…
Measure Terms in Rural Jordanian Spoken Arabic
The use of measure terms can be socially and culturally determined, as every speech society may have its own unique measure terms. This study aims to shed light on the sociolinguistic usage of measure terms in Jordanian Spoken Arabic (JSA). The researcher collected the data from everyday conversations in the rural dialect of the north of Jordan. The participants of the study were 15 men and women who were in their fifties and sixties. The ethnogr…
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Measure Terms in Rural Jordanian Spoken Arabic
The use of measure terms can be socially and culturally determined, as every speech society may have its own unique measure terms. This study aims to shed light on the sociolinguistic usage of measure terms in Jordanian Spoken Arabic (JSA). The researcher collected the data from everyday conversations in the rural dialect of the north of Jordan. The participants of the study were 15 men and women who were in their fifties and sixties. The ethnogr…
A Conversation Analysis of self-initiated repair structures in Jordanian Spoken Arabic
This article studies the Conversation Analysis (CA) of self-initiated repair structures in everyday conversations in Jordanian Spoken Arabic (JSA). It aims to cast light on self-initiated repairs practised by Jordanians. The data were collected in 2010; 18 dyadic-videotaped conversations totalling about nine hours, mixed and single-sex, were conducted at Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan. The data analysed include 1595 self-initiated repairs. The…
Islamic Discourse, Ideology and Translation
Ideology is a critical term in the domain of translation. This study aimed at identifying the ideological implications behind the translator’s lexical choices in Qutb’s Milestones into English. It also investigated the ideological, cultural and religious impacts that affect the flowing of meaning for the target audience. The sample of the study was Sayyid Qutb’scontroversial Islamic book ‘Milestones.’ The book was considered a manifesto of Muslim…
Think Aloud Protocol in Translating Sheikh Jassim bin Mohammed Al Thani’s Poetry
This study sets out to investigate the usability of Think Aloud Protocol (TAP) – in translating Sheikh Jassim Al Thani’s poetry into English, which is an example of Nabati poetry. The study was conducted on two groups of MA graduates in translation studies: Qataris and non-Qataris. The approach used in this study is process-oriented, and therefore it illuminates the strategies that translators use to overcome challenges during the translation pro…
The rhetorical feature of chiasmus in the Quran and its translation into English
The study aimed to investigate the linguistic functions, patterns and translation of chiasmus in the Quran. The sample of the study consisted of 32 different verses from the Quran accompanied with four reliable translations of the Quran, namely Palmer, Arberry, Pickthall and Yusuf Ali to examine how these chiasms translated into English. The study relied on Nida’s (1964) formal approach to translation as a theoretical framework. The study conclud…
Achieving fidelity through self-translation
This study investigates whether fidelity was achieved in the self-translation of Friday sermons by imam Mohammed Ewes. Ewes is an Egyptian Muslim imam who immigrated to the United Kingdom in 1996. When writing this paper, he had been preaching at Al-Birr Mosque in London for 25 years. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, he is one of the few Muslim imams in the Islamic world to have self-translated and compiled his religious sermons into a sing…
Subtitling Jordanian cultural expressions into English on Netflix
The present study is a descriptive analysis of subtitling in the Jordanian Netflix show, AlRawabi School for Girls Season 2, specifically, the translation of Jordanian cultural expressions from Arabic to English. It focuses on the role of multimodal elements in conveying meaning and the challenges subtitlers face in the process. The authors examine the strategies proposed by various scholars to address these challenges. This study used 50 example…
Strategies in Subtitling Jordanian Dialect on Netflix
This study explores the challenges faced by Netflix subtitlers and the strategies used to translate Jordanian dialectal expressions into English in the Netflix miniseries AlRawabi School for Girls. The corpus of this study consists of 50 authentic examples extracted from the series. Adopting a descriptive approach to translation studies, as suggested by Gideon (1995), our analysis reveals three major findings relevant to subtitling Jordanian dial…
Translating food idioms across the english arabic language divide
Idiomatic expressions, especially those rooted in the universal domain of food, represent one of the most culture-embedded and translation-difficult forms of language. The current study aims to examine the translation of twenty English food idioms into Arabic and twenty Arabic food idioms into English by human professional translators, as well as two of the most prominent large language models (LLMs): ChatGPT (GPT-4o) and Google Gemini Advanced. …
ElevenLabs Voice Cloning
The study investigates the efficiency of ElevenLabs voice cloning software in dubbing Egyptian humor in Instagram reels into English. Furthermore, it aims at examining how the replication of tonal pitch nuances and original actors’ voices influence the translatability of humor into the target language. To examine the transfer of cultural and pragmatic aspects of humor, the study conducts multi-layer analysis for eight reels by adopting a multi-mo…
A legal semiotic analysis of the English translation of Jordan’s Child Rights Law
This study aims to examine the English translation of Jordan’s Child Rights Law No. 17 of 2022 from a legal semiotic analysis, examining the construction, mediation, and recontextualization of meaning in the process of translation. The study follows an empirical research approach framework, and the quantitative analysis of signs examines the relationship between the original text and the translated text based on (Alowedi). The analysis reveals th…
Post-Divorce Autonomy and Resilience Among Palestinian Women in Facebook Support Group
This qualitative study analyzes fifty anonymized posts from Palestinian Facebook support groups to understand how women rebuild identity and assert agency after divorce. Thematic analysis revealed six key themes: the need for self care, catalysts for separation, verbal and emotional abuse, conflicted love, supportive communities, and financial autonomy. The findings show that digital solidarity and economic empowerment facilitate decision making …
Translation Studies and Practices (7 works) · Linguistics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Arabic (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (2 works)