Mohamed Abdou Moindjie
Senior Lecturer of Translation Studies and English Studies
Mohamed Abdou Moindjie is a Senior Lecturer of Translation Studies and English Studies at the School of Languages, Literacies and Translation, Universiti Sains Malaysia. His research focuses on literary translation, comparative translation studies, and multilingualism across Arabic, English, French, Malay, and Chinese. A noted polyglot fluent in ten languages, he is known for his work on translation norms, modality, and cultural mediation.
Primary Research Interests
- Literary Translation: Comparative study of literary translation from Arabic into English and French, including translation norms and shifts.
- Translation and Ideology: How translators' ideologies and stylistic choices shape translated texts across languages and historical contexts.
- Multilingualism in Translation: Perspectives on translation across English, Malay, Chinese, Arabic, and French language pairs.
- Cultural Mediation: Translation of culture-specific items and cultural references between Asian and European languages.
- Corpus-based Translation Studies: Using parallel corpora and computational tools to analyse translator style and linguistic features.
Academic History & Qualification
- PhD in Literary Translation — Universiti Sains Malaysia (2006)
- Master's degree — Universiti Sains Malaysia (2003)
Selected Publications & Thesis Work
A Study of Culture-Specific Items in Jean M. James's Translation of Luotuo Xiangzi
Xiaohan Guo, Mohamed Abdou Moindjie, Paramaswari Jaganathan (2025). GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies.
Analyses translation strategies and challenges for culture-specific items based on Aixelá's theory.
Occurrence of Ellipsis and Shift in French-English Translation: A Study of Madame Bovary
Mohamed Abdou Moindjie (2024). Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities.
Describes ellipsis and shift phenomena in French-English literary translation and their effects on meaning.
Norms of Substitution in Translation: A French-English Case Study
Mohamed Abdou Moindjie (2022). Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities.
Examines substitution norms in French-English translation through a case study approach.
Relevance of Modality Markers in Translating from Spanish into English: A Case Study of Los Intereses Creados
Mohamed Abdou Moindjie, Rahamatullah Ummu-Salmah (2020). Pertanika Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities.
Studies the relevance of modality markers when translating from Spanish into English.
A Comparative Study of Literary Translation from Arabic into English and French
Mohamed Abdou Moindjie (2006). PhD thesis, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Doctoral thesis comparing literary translation from Arabic into English and French.
The Occurrence of Voices in Translation
Mohamed Abdou Moindjie (2016).
Descriptive study of how active and passive voices occur in translation with different surface structures.
Highlights
- Chairperson of the Department of Foreign Languages, Université des Comores (2016–2018)
- Maître de Conférences at the Department of Foreign Languages, Université des Comores
- Featured in New Straits Times as a USM lecturer who speaks ten languages (2019)
- Authored the book 'Insight into Multilingualism in Translation' (2024)