Hadi Hairan

Curriculum Vitae

Name:                                      Hadi Hairan

Nationality:                Afghan

Mother Tongue:          Pashto

Profession:                 Research, Journalism, Translations

Email:                                      ahhairan@gmail.com

Web:                                        www.hadihairan.com

Languages Skills

Work History

1.      Correspondent (Current): Central Asia Online (English) (www.centralasiaonline.com)

Key responsibilities:

• Providing new stories, interviews, opinion pieces and feature reports

2. Research Analyst (Current): Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS) (English), Kabul, Afghanistan (http://www.caps.af/staff/hairan.asp)

Key responsibilities:

·        Writing weekly analyses about the current situation in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the tribal areas

• Writing reports of important assessments (Assessing security, terrorism, governance, stakeholders; writing reports of legal programs, analyzing data from field research)

·        Doing quantitative and qualitative field research studies

·        Doing provincial assessments (security, terrorism, tribal conflicts)

·        Writing suicide attack and insurgent groups profiles

·        Preparing presentations on the above

            3.   Project Analyst (Jan. 2009) Pajhwok Afghan News (PAN) (English), Kabul, Afghanistan (www.pajhwok.com)

Key responsibilities:

• Working as lead analyst of the Tracking Campaign Promises project which identifies the promises of President Hamid Karzai during his campaign and tracks progress on them
• Writing news and feature stories

4.      Freelance interpreter/ translator (2002-current) Different organizations, newspapers and magazines, and UK, US, Canada, and Singapore–based translation companies (English>Pashto>Urdu>Dari)

Key responsibilities:

·        English to Pashto, Urdu, Dari and vice versa translations

·        Proofreading and editing other translators' translations

·        The translations include: journalistic material, technical reports, military manuals, academic papers, literary books, highly important government sector monthly and quarterly reporters, legal cases, etc.

·        Interpretation

·        Transcription

• Subtitles

·        Voice-over

 5.      Pashto translator/localizer (Feb-Jul. 2009): Paiwastoon Networking Ltd. (One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)) (USAID sub-contact project) (English>Pashto), Kabul, Afghanistan

Key responsibilities:

·        Translating computer and internet softwares, including: Etoys, Mozilla Firefox, Open Source, Joomla, etc.

·        Translating official letters and statements

 6.      News Editor (2006-2008): Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) (Pashto, Urdu), Peshawar, Pakistan

Key responsibilities:

·        Taking notes of the news from correspondents in the field by phone

·        Writing the news stories in Pashto and Urdu

·        Contacting officials, eyewitnesses, local people, and anti-government elements for more information about the incidents

·        Compiling all the information into news stories in Pashto and Urdu

·        Editing news stories written by sub-editors

·        Translating and editing press releases of the governments, NATO, AGE, and others

 7.      Regional Editor, Afghanistan (2008): Instablogs.com (English)

Key responsibilities:

·        Editing all the news reports and articles posted by contributors about Afghanistan region

 8.      Senior News Editor (2008): Bimonthly Jirga, (Pashto, Dari) London, UK

Key responsibilities:

·        Preparing the whole paper.

9.      Sub-editor/translator/columnist (2004-2006): Daily Wahdat, (Pashto), Peshawar, Pakistan

Key responsibilities:

·        Writing features about important topics

·        Preparing special editions on some important political, social and literary issues

·        Writing a weekly column

·        Translating news stories from English and Urdu into Pashto

 10.      Sub-editor/columnist (2006): Daily Khabroona, (Pashto), Peshawar, Pakistan

Key responsibilities:

·        Writing features about important topics

·        Preparing special editions on some important political, social and literary issues

·        Writing a weekly column

·        Translating news stories from English and Urdu into Pashto

 11.      Reporter/columnist/translator (2002-2004): Weekly Roshan-e-Pakistan (Urdu), Karachi, Pakistan

Key responsibilities:

·        Translating articles from Pashto and English into Urdu

·        Writing a weekly column

·        Interviewing important personalities of Pashto literature

Web links

The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abdulhadi-hairan

Center for Conflict and Peace Studies (CAPS): http://www.caps.af/staff/hairan.asp

LinkedIn profile: http://af.linkedin.com/in/hairan

Proz Profile: http://www.proz.com/profile/633226

Translators’ Café Profile: http://www.translatorscafe.com/cafe/member81427.htm

Benawa (Pashto): http://www.benawa.com/fullstory.php?id=23092 (Pashto)

Tolafghan (Pashto): http://www.tolafghan.com/posts/15708 (Pashto)

Learn Pashto (blog): http://learnpashto.wordpress.com/ (Pashto)

Twitter Updates: http://twitter.com/hairan (Pashto)

• Adobe Acrobat
• Adobe Photoshop
• OmegaT
• Open Language Tools
• PowerPoint
• QuarkXPress
• TRADOS