Biographies
Claire Brierley is a computational and corpus linguist affiliated to the University of Leeds as a Visiting Researcher in Computing and also in Arabic, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. Her research interests include natural language processing for Quranic Arabic, plus automatic extraction/classification of prosodic features in Arabic and English text corpora, as evidenced in her most recent journal articles for Semitic Studies (Brierley et al. 2018; 2016) and her PhD in Computing from Leeds (2011). She has spent over 26 years in higher education as a senior lecturer and senior research fellow.
E-mail: C.Brierley@leeds.ac.uk
Hanem El-Farahaty is a Lecturer of Arabic/English Translation and Interpreting and the Programme Manager for the MA in Arabic/English Translation at the University of Leeds. In 2011, Hanem was awarded a PhD for her research into Arabic Translation Studies with a particular focus on legal translation. She has taught Arabic and translation in a number of UK universities. She also taught English language and translation at the University of Mansoura, Egypt. Hanem is the author of Arabic-English-Arabic Legal Translation (2015) and she is a co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Arabic Translation (2019).
E-mail: H.El-Farahaty@leeds.ac.uk