Mohammed Al-Batineh
List of John Benjamins publications for which Mohammed Al-Batineh plays a role.
Articles
2023 The localization of food- and drink-related items in video games: The case of The Witcher 3 in Arabic Digital Translation 10:1, pp. 37–57 | Article
This study examines the localization of food- and drink-related items in The Witcher 3 (2015). It analyzes the original English and Arabic versions using the corpus approach. A list of food- and drink-related lexemes was extracted from the English original game and these lexemes were traced to… read more
2021 Translation hacking in Arabic video game localization: The history and current practices Translation Spaces 10:2, pp. 202–230 | Article
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… read more