Translation, proofreading and editing: German > English Arabic > English Romanian > English Websites, presentations, articles, press releases, correspondence, country reports, project descriptions,
grant applications and other non-technical texts Fields of specialisation: Human rights, politics and policy, international development, media, tourism, arts and culture, EU (in particular issues related to enlargement), academic (humanities and social science), general.
Supported software: Microsoft Windows XP Pro: MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, FrontPage, Excel) Linux: LateX/ArabTeX HTML/XHTML Adobe: Acrobat Writer, Photoshop TRADOS freelance 6.5 Macromedia: Dreamweaver, HomeSite+ Professional background: 03/04 - 12/04: Copy Editor, Groupe Aeroconseil, Blagnac, France (subcontracted to Airbus) 08/00 - 08/01: Lecturer in Arabic, University of Durham, UK 11/94 - 09/95: Middle East Team, International Secretariat, Amnesty International, London, UK Examples of recent projects: Report on "Older Workers in the Workforce" (German>English, Bertelsmann Foundation) Report on Public Service Reform (German>English, Bertelsmann Foundation) Conference paper on the impact of non tariff trade barriers for CEEC agricultural and food products (a Franco-Romanian project sponsored by the Brancusi programme) (editing) Series of 7 newspaper articles about the effects of the introduction of the euro (Arabic>English) Doctoral thesis on modern Syrian theatre (editing, Arabic transliteration and formatting, long-term project with St. John |