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Objective
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Aiming to work as a freelancer in subtitling,
translation, and proofreading. I like to work on different subjects
covering a variety of areas and on different levels from documents aimed at
the general public to a more specialized audience.
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Certifications & memberships
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Certified by the ATN-APTS, Arab Professional
Translators Society.
Member of ATA, American Translators Association
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Languages
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Mother tongue: Arabic
Source language: English
Target language: Arabic
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Education
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- Bachelors’
degree in Arabic Language and Literature in 1996, from Al-Yarmouk
University in Jordan.
- Secondary
school certificate in 1990
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Experience
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Full time employment:
- Abu
Ghazaleh for Translation (Jordan), between January and August 2003.
- Sukayna
for Translation (Jordan), between December 1999 and May 2000
Online employment:
- Currently
working as the Arabic Language Manager at aaTranslations.com
- Azzaman
Newspaper (London, Online), between February and May 2001: Translating
daily news and commentaries for the newspaper.
Freelancing:
Since 1990, including working
with translation agencies, banking and financial services companies,
subtitling companies, Advertising Agencies, Diplomatic Institutes Academic
institutions and International Networks, including:
- Translation of the website
of ACM Advanced Currency Markets SA, with continuous updates of the
website since 2004 and daily economical reports issued by the company
since 2005 and until this date
- Translation of Max
Facilitation, Dr. Max Schupbach's website, which is an institution that
works in the field of facilitation and conflict resolution in
different parts of the world.
- Subtitle translation of
different types of TV and cinema productions, including political,
educational, technical and entertainment programs, through subtitling
companies, such as Softitler in Italy, Feature Subtitling in the
United States and European Captioning Institute in the United Kingdom.
- Participated in the
translation of the book "Translation Profession" by Roger
Chriss.
- Participated in the Million
Artists project.
- Undertook different
financial, legal, technical, medical and other translation projects
through a large number of translation companies and agencies around
the world.
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Main
Skills
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Translation,
transcription, subtitling, proofreading and editing of various topics and
fields (English > Arabic)
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Working
with advertising agencies
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Working
on political and diplomatic topics
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Ability
to work on conference material
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Translation
from English to Arabic and from Arabic to English
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Typing skills
in both Arabic and English languages
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Working
on documents in different fields; scientific, social, medical, political
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Website
translation
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Additional
Skills
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- Computer skills: MS Office (including
Power Point), and CAT tools
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Areas of specialization
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Education
Literature
Social sciences
Finance
Legal
Computer software and hardware
Automotive
IT
Marketing
Medical
Biochemistry
Psychology
Philosophy
Religion
Politics
Technical
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Hardware/Software
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Intel®
Celeron® CPU 3.06GHz, 1250 MG of RAM, 200GB HD.
Scanner
Printer
Copier
System:
Microsoft
Windows XP
ADSL
connection, 512kbps
Backup
Laptop with same specifications for emergencies
Software:
Microsoft
Office 2003 and 2007
Adobe
Acrobat 6.0 Professional
SDL
Trados 2007
InqScribe
1.0.2
Transcriber
1.5.1
Alchemy
Catalyst 6 Lite
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