Salah Basalamah

Salah Basalamah is now Chair and Full Professor at the School of Translation and Interpretation, University of Ottawa. His fields of research include the Philosophy of Translation, Translation Rights, Social and Political Philosophy, Postcolonial, Cultural and Religious Studies, as well as Western Islam and Muslims. He’s the author of Le droit de traduire: une politique culturelle pour la mondialisation [The Right to Translate. A Cultural Policy for Globalization] (2009) at the University of Ottawa Press. Since 2014, he teaches a multidisciplinary PhD seminar on the diversity of Canadian Muslims at the Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal Studies (ICAS) at the University of Ottawa. He is also a member of the Eco-Translation Network (Edinburgh, Scotland) and of the Nida Center for Advanced Research on Translation (Rimini, Italy). And he has two forthcoming books: the first is A Bergsonian Approach to Translation and Time: Toward Spiritual Translation Studies (Routledge Oct 15, 20024) and the second is an edited book entitled Translating Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan 2025).