***Education and Certification***
Faculty of Alsun, Ain Shams University
Bachelor degree, English language and Translation, 1997
Arab Translators Association
Certified Professional Translator, November 2003
Victory College
English Language High School Diploma, Maadi, 1993
***Work Experience***
Job Title: Managing Editor, Egypt Today Arabic version & PC World Egypt Magazines
Employer: IBA Media
From: May, 2001 Till: current
Main Duties & Responsibilities
• Planning the overall mix of stories and concepts of each issue
• Deciding who will write or translate stories
• Translating sensitive and important articles
• Working with Photo Editor to decide how to illustrate articles
• Working with the online editor to develop online concepts from print content
• Supervising the design process
• Continually collaborating with Sales & Marketing to ensure everyone is aware of upcoming content
• Leading editorial meetings
• Reviewing the performance of each direct report annually
• Communicating with the Administration Department regarding time sheets, leaves of absence, performance reviews, and other administrative policies
• Managing publication’s annual budget
* Job Title: Editorial and Communications Specialist
Employer: Chemonics International/USAID, Cairo Air Improvement Project
From: October, 2000 To: April, 2001
Main Duties & Responsibilities
• Writing and supervising design of project monthly Newsletter in Arabic and English
• Writing press releases and articles for brochures and booklets, in collaboration with the project COO in order to promote the project’s activities, events and goals
• Setting language levels and styles for a variety of materials: technical documentation, business documents, public awareness materials, and other classes of written project outputs
• Responsible for oversight of all project publications
• Translating news articles and confidential documents
• Providing information and materials for the project website
• Managing events and conferences
• Public awareness component liaison, working with the technical team and graphic designers to oversee the production of briefing packages.
* Job Title: Legal Translator and Court Administration Specialist
Employer: AMIDEAST/USAID Administration of Justice Support Project
From: October, 1998 To: September, 2000
Main Duties & Responsibilities
• Translating confidential legal documents and interpreting in project meetings.
• Translating all correspondences to and from the project judicial team
• Translated materials varied from correspondences, news articles and quarterly plans to confidential court judgments
• As member of the Court Administration Department, job responsibilities also involved meeting judges, chief justices and court employees, to introduce to them the idea of change, urge and lead them to implementation of modern court management techniques
* Job Title: News reader
Employer: Nile Sat News channel
From: April, 1999 To: October, 1999
Main Duties & Responsibilities
Preparing and reading Arabic news on air.
* Job Title: Bureau Chief Translator, and News Researcher
Employer: Japanese News Agency-Kyodo News
From: July 1997 To: September 1998
Main Duties & Responsibilities
• Monitoring and Translating Arab press and wire news into English, in coordination with the Head Office in Tokyo
• Monitoring Arabic and English press, television and news networks to follow up on the current wire stories
• Providing accurate and edited translation for news stories (political, economic, social, cultural, etc.) originally written in Arabic
• Covering high-level conferences and events
***Part Time and Freelance***
• Translator, Baker And Mackenzie Egypt Bureau:
Legal, business and commercial translations
• Translator and Editor, Gulf News Agency:
Writing, translating and reporting news articles in Arabic. Agency Magazines with published articles include Voice of Palestine and Finance world.
• Writer and translator, Akhbar Al Addab newspaper:
Free-lancer writer and translator to the Egyptian Akhbar Al Addab newspaper (literature news), providing a weekly article
• Freelance translation to many local and International organizations.
Languages:
Arabic-Degree: excellent, written and spoken
English-Degree: excellent, written and spoken
French-Degree: Good, written
Published articles, diplomas and reference letters are available upon request.
