Al-Ahliyya Amman University
Prof. Dr. Linda Alkhawaja
Professor
Major: Languages and Translation studies
Department: English Language Department
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Email:
Extention: 2029
Profiles:
COURSES TAUGHT
- General Translation 2
- الترجمة بمساعدة الكمبيوتر
- simultaneous and consecutive interpretation 1
- simultaneous and consecutive interpretation 2
- Seminar in Translation
- Research Methodology
- Specialized Translation
- General Translation 1
- Media Translation
- Principles of Writing
- Research Methodology
- Translation Technology
- Field Training
- Reading Comprehension
- Essay writing
ACADEMIC RANKS
| Rank | University | Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Professor | Al-Ahliyya Amman University | Jordan | 2024 |
| Associate Professor | Al-Ahliyya Amman University | Jordan | 2020 |
| Assistant Professor | Al-Ahliyya Amman University | Jordan | 2014 |
QUALIFICATION
| Degree | Institute | Specialization | Country | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ماجستير | University of Salford/ Manchester | Translation and Interpreting | الأردن | September / 2008 |
| بكالوريوس | Al-Ahliyya Amman University | English Language and Translation | الأردن | August / 2007 |
| Phd | Aston University/Birmingham | Languages and Translation Studies | July / 2014 |
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Job Title | Institute | Time Period |
|---|---|---|
| Associate Professor | Al-Ahliyya Amman University | January / 2014 - January / Present |
| Part Time Lecturer | Al-Ahliyya Amman University | September / 2008 - September / 2009 |
| Quality Assurance Officer | Al-Ahliyya Amman University | September / 2008 - September / 2009 |
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Sociology of Translation
- Translation and Cultural Theory
- Machine Translation and AI
RESEARCHES AND PUBLICATIONS
- Rand Habib, Linda Alkhawaja, Ogareet Khoury, Sa‘ida Al-Sayyed (2025) Six NMT Systems, One Language Pair: Which Best Translates Arabic-English? World Journal of English Language , Vol. 16, No. 1; 2026
- Abdulazeez Jaradat & Linda Alkhawaja (2024) A split morphosyntactic analysis of diminutives in two Arabic varieties Cogent Arts & Humanities, 11:1, 2431461
- Feda Ghnaim, Linda Alkhawaja (2024) From the Margins to the Center: A Reading of'Antarah Ibn Shaddad'through Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic EVOLUTIONARY STUDIES IN IMAGINATIVE CULTURE, 8.2, 1075-1093
- Ghnaim, Feda; Alkhawaja Linda; Khoury, Ogareet; Alomary, Asmaa (2024) Exploring Al-Mutanabbi’s Poetic Duality: Ego Exaltation and Model Defiance in “My Heart Is a Flame Journal of Language Teaching and Research, Volume 15, Issue 6, 2097 - 2108
- Hanan M Ibrahim, Linda Alkhawaja, Maha S Yaseen (2024) The Textual vs the Contextual: A Heideggerian Reading of Walid Saif’s Poem ‘Love Again’ Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 15, 3, 787-797
- Linda Alkhawaja (2024) Unveiling the New Frontier: ChatGPT-3 Powered Translation for Arabic-English Language Pairs Theory and Practice in Language Studies, 14, 2, 347-357
- Ogareet Khouty, Linda Alkhawaja, Fida Ghnaim, Sirin Awwad (2023) The Transformation of Being in Mahmoud Darwish’s The Dice Player: A Heideggerian Perspective Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 9 (1), 2023
- Mohammed Idris, Linda Alkhawaja, Hanan Ibrahim (2023) Gender Disparities among Students of Jordanian Universities during COVID-19 International Journal of Educational Development, 99 (102776), 2023, 1-11
- Linda Alkhawaja, Ogareet Khoury, Hanan Ibrahim, Fida Ghnaim (2022) Effective Pedagogical Practices for Online Teaching: The Practice of Translation in the Post-COVID-19 Era Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 8 (3), 2022
- Hanan Ibrahim, Linda Alkhawaja (2022) Feminism and popular culture in the Lebanese series “Half Past Five”: resistance vs complicity Feminist Media Studies , 22 (5), 2022
- Marwan Jarrah, Abdelaziz Jaradt, Linda Alkhawaja (2022) The Position of the Broken Plural in the Grammar Lingua, 265, 103165, 2022
- Linda Alkhawaja, Hanan Ibrahim, and Abdulazeez Jaradat (2021) Twitter Use and its Impact on Public Attitudes Toward Bank Robberies in Jordan Journal of Global South Studies , 37, pp. 209-239
- Alkhawaja, Linda; Ibrahim, Hanan; Ghnaim, Fida' and Awwad, Sirin (2020) Neural Machine Translation: Fine-Grained Evaluation of Google Translate Output for English-to-Arabic Translation International Journal of English Linguistics, 10 (4), 2020, 43-60
- Linda Alkhawaja (2019) Habitus and Intellectual Trajectory in Translational Process: A Case Study Al-Balqa Journal for Research and Studies, 22 (1), 2019, 9-24
- Linda Alkhawaja (2019) Network and Cooperation in the Field of Cultural Production: Mahfouz in Translation International Journal of Arabic-English Studies, 19 (2), 2019, 284-296
- (2012) The Role of Social Agents in the Translational Field of Arabic Literature The First Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference (IPC),
CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS
| Conference Title | Type of Participation | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The First Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference (IPC) | Paper/Poster | Aston University/ UK | June / 2012 |
THESIS SUPERVISION
| Title | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | 2020 |
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIP
| Title | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| N/A | 2017 |
