I interpret between Russian, Arabic, and English in consecutive and simultaneous modes across on-site, telephone, and video remote settings. My work frequently supports medical providers in emergency rooms and terminal care situations, as well as legal proceedings in criminal courtrooms. I also translate documents within the fields of biology and business, drawing on an academic background in international business relations and law. My experience includes serving free clinics, children's hospitals, and educational institutions to facilitate clear communication for patients, families, and students. I hold a Bridging the Gap certification and have completed advanced interpreter skills training. With fluency in Uzbek, Russian, English, and Arabic, I ensure accurate conveyance of complex information in high-stakes environments.
In the past 23 years, I worked as a volunteer interpreter on many court cases, many speeches and conferences for churches as a seminar and consecutive interpreter. Also as a translator, I worked on translating several booklets, articles, study courses and a few books.
My mother tongue is Serbian (born Yugoslavian) and I have fluently spoken Serbo-Croatian since the early 1980\\'s. I then learned Arabic while growing up in the middle-east from 1984-1999, and also learned French from 1995-1997.
I am very detail and deadline oriented. I have always done very high quality work, and delivered work on time. I am good at responding to client queries and follow up work.
I am armenian-lebanese, I had my education in Beirut, Lebanon in Arabic and French from K-12. At the university, the language of instruction was English. I have 2 bachelors degrees and M.A. in history. I came to the U.S. in 1988 and have been working as a secondary substitute teacher at L.A.U.S.D. for the last 11 years. During this time, I worked as an interpreter/translator for the courts, DMV, lawyers offices and private translation companies.
I am first and foremost an academician with Ph.D.s in History and Political Science, specializing in the Middle East. I teach at college and university (undergraduate) levels (for some 15 years now). I have worked as a journalist for more than 2 decades. I have done freelance translation since 1980 in Armenian, Arabic, and Turkish. I also do research in Classical Armenian and Ottoman Turkish. I am also a California Certified Real Estate Broker and a Certified Notary Signing Agent. For the past 5 years I have been involved in many translation/linguistic projects for the USA Federal Government in Washington DC and Overseas.
I have broad experience in the field of translation for more than 9 years. I can provide translation, interpretation, proofreading, transcription, and subtitling services bidirectionally in English, Pashto, Dari, Urdu, and Arabic. I have special interest in translating material from a variety of disciplines including environment, engineering, sports, art, and science. Furthermore, I can provide translation for a wide range of document types including legal documents, formal letters, personal statements etc.
I am an
Arabic interpreter, with more than 10 years of experience. My expertise includes US Army mission support, HHS mission support, immigration courts, 911 medical calls.
As an Iraqi Kurdish citizen, I consider Kurdish sorani and Arabic my native languages as I practiced both languages in my studies and my daily life.
Translation was always my interest and later on became part of all my jobs as an engineer or as a teacher.
I work as a full time translator since 2003.
I have practiced different translation projects; technical, medical, political and general.
