****************** Stairway to the Stars - Gabrielle Stravelli Michael Kanan (gabriellestravelli.com, michaelkanan.com): Has Gabrielle Stravelli turned herself from audacious rock belter, which is how she started, into just about our finest jazz interpreter?
At Valenciennes, about 30 interpreters stand ready to interpret in French or Japanese.
The New Yorker, December 20 , 1999P. 98 BOOKS FROM OUR PAGES about "Interpreter of Maladies" (Mariner; $12) by Jhumpa Lahiri...In Lahiri's debut collection, these displaced Indian men and women — hardheaded and irresponsibly honest — learn to cope with the bewildering rituals of their new lives.
So here's my latest far-fetched idea: former soldiers and marines — Iraq veterans who worry about the interpreters they left behind — should demonstrate in front of the White House under a banner that reads, "Mr. President: Save Our Iraqi Friends".
During the plenary session of the General Assembly there are about 70 interpreters at work; they range in age from 28 to 61.
If you missed seeing my Off-Broadway play "Betrayed," about Iraqi interpreters, and if you live in metropolitan New York, Channel 13 is airing a televised version Thursday evening, October 23rd, at 9 P.M. Here's a brief preview.
The New Yorker staff writer George Packer's critically acclaimed drama "Betrayed," produced by the Culture Project, began as an article in the March 26 , 2007 issue, about Iraqi interpreters whose lives were threatened because they worked with Americans.
(Photograph by Carol Rosegg) If you missed seeing my Off-Broadway play "Betrayed," about Iraqi interpreters, and if you live in metropolitan New York, Channel 13 is airing a televised version Thursday evening, October 23rd, at 9 P.M. Here's a brief preview.
Then he thought about what interpreters do.
He says he no longer has to fear the Taliban, but he worries about the interpreters still in the country who face death threats.
