Yousra Thabet Shahy Aly
Personal Information:
Date of Birth: 22/10/1980.
Nationality: Egyptian.
Place of Birth: Cairo, Egypt.
Address: 5 Street No. 9
Mobile No.: (2)010-0928557.
Email: yousra.thabet@gmail.com
Objective:
An active, ambitious and self motivated translator, who owns a challenging spirit to become one of the best professional translators in my mother tongue language, seeking to build long term business relations based on hard work, accurate translations, meeting deadlines and reasonable rates.
Education:
BA. of Arts, English Literature major, English Language dept., faculty of Arts, Ain Shams university, 1998-2001, Cairo, Egypt.
Courses and Certificates:
* ITE Certificate - AUC, Cairo, Egypt 2008.
* Trados SDL 7.5 from (Future Group co.), Cairo, Egypt, 2006.
* ATN-APTS certificate (Arab Translators Network-Arab Professional Translators Society), certified member 2006. http://www.arabtranslators.net/atn_certified_members.asp
* Written Translation certificate from (The American University in Cairo)-currently.
* General English course from (The American University in Cairo) 2004.
* ICDL from (Misr Learn-Microsoft certified center), Cairo, Egypt, 2003.
* CIW 410 from (NileSoft-IBM certified center), Cairo, Egypt, 2003.
Language Pairs:
English > Arabic, Arabic > English.
Services:
Translation, Subtitling, Transcription.
Specialization:
General Translation.
Translation and Writing Experience:
* Freelance Translator in "Future Group"-currently.
* Freelance Translator in "Dar Al-Salam publishing house" 2004-2005.
* Full-time Translator in "Health & Beyond" magazine 2002-2002.
* Part-time Writer in "Cairo Times" magazine 2001-2001.
* Part-time Writer in "Teen Stuff" magazine 2000-2001.
* Types of projects i translated: Medical, Political, Religious (Islam), Educational, Financial, Arts-related.
Software:
* MS Windows XP Professional.
* MS Office 2003.
* Trados SDL 6.5 and 7.5.