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Musab Hayatli

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"Certified Translation English - Arabic"

United Kingdom

Mother Tongue: Arabic

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Address: 28 Lonsdale Road, Oxford, OX2 7EW, United Kingdom (show map )
Phone: +44 1865 559362, Fax: +44 1865 559362, Cell Phone: +447884 012740

Joined: Sep. 23, 2003, last update Dec. 22, 2008

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Website: http://www.eurabia-translation.com

Working Language Pairs

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English > Arabic, Arabic > English

Language locales: English - United Kingdom, English - United States

Services
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Copywriting, Editing, Proofreading, Terminology Research, Translation

Specialization
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- Social sciences: humanitarian affairs and human rights
- Business and Finance

Subject Areas
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Banking and Financial, Business Administration and Management, Business General, Business Marketing, Economics, Education, Finance, General, History, Linguistics, Political Science

Background

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CURRICULUM VITAE

Professional Experience

2005 - Ongoing

Oxford University, Refugee Studies Centre

Editor "Forced Migration Review" Journal

"Forced Migration Review" is published by the Refugee Studies Centre at Oxford University and focuses on issues related to refugees and internally-displaced persons (IDPs). The Journal is published in English, Arabic and Spanish and French.
Responsibilities include deciding, with other editors, on themes and articles; organising call for papers and relevant publicity; editing articles received in Arabic, raising awareness of themes and issues, monitoring and organising subscription and distribution, fund-raising, as well as managing the necessary translation work of articles for the Arabic and French editions of the journal and proofreading, editing and proofing of the Arabic edition

2001 — Ongoing

Self-employed
Freelance Translator and Editor English-Arabic

Working with a number of companies and agencies on a freelance-basis.
Areas of specialisation include politics, social science, world affairs, as well as General Business and Finance.
Editing: recent projects involved in: Civitas report, Nuffield College, Oxford University; Special edition of Accord on Sudan, and the UNDP's Human Development Report 2007-2008

1999 — 2001

Oxford Medical Knowledge / Centre for Evidence-based Medicine

University of Oxford
Health Researcher and Associate Editor

Summarising and simplifying complex medical systematic reviews published by the Cochrane Collaboration, creating a user-friendly database for health professionals and patients.
Researching, preparing and writing “Patients’ Reports” using rigorous search methods, and appraisal processes to establish the best available research evidence.
Identifying the best medical papers in key topic areas using a variety of specialist information sources such as Medline, Cochrane library and other medical journals
Transforming selected papers into Critically Appraised Topics (CATs) using specific epidemiological statistical methods to assess the validity of the research and to present the findings as a concise one-page summary. The work continued towards the publication of a new medical textbook — Acute Medicine: Evidence-based On Call.

1998 — 1999

Oxford University, All Souls College
Translator/Research Associate

Research Associate to Dr John Davis the Warden (president) of All Souls College, Oxford University. Duties included mainly translating a large volume of legal documents, mainly marriage and divorce ones, from Arabic into English.

1992 — 1994

Arab Contracting and Trading Est. (Act), Damascus- Syria
Translator and PA

The Company worked as an intermediary between Syrian national companies and foreign companies bidding for work in Syria. Daily duties involved translating all correspondence, technical brochures, contracts, invoices and any other documents that needed passing from one party to another.
Duties also included the management of the daily schedule of the company’s general manager as well as accompanying him to his meetings where I acted as an interpreter for foreign businessmen attending.

Professional Membership

· Member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting (ITI)
· Accredited by Arab Translators Network-Arab Professional Translators Society

Education

Oxford University: Research degree in Theoretical Linguistics
Damascus University, Damascus - Syria: Research degree in General Linguistics
Baath University, Homs — Syria: BA Honours in English

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