SENIOR ARABIC EDITOR
اطلب عرض سعر بدون التزام
Professional Arabic editor offering a wealth of experience in leading organizations and handling strategic projects and editorial and translation teams. Recognized as a reliable professional, decisive leader and result-oriented team player with a focus on quality and timely deliveries.
Experienced Arabic editor worked in myriad projects for private and government sectors, highly attentive to style consistency, spelling, grammatical and common mistakes, weak transitions and confusing language, etc. My professional qualities include engineering and technical background with Arabic fluency, creative thinking, powerful analytical skills and deep understanding of media in business, IT, online content, research reports in a way that boosts success and growth of media, publishing, academic or government organization.
Manager- Content Quality Control (Nov 2019-Nov 2022)
Editing, writing and proofreading the Dubai Future Foundation’s Arabic content. Leading the editorial team of Mostaqbal Portal (website and social media) to write, translate and proofread futuristic news and articles. Writing articles for local newspapers and editing and proofreading the full Arabic content for Museum of The Future.
Editing and proofreading Dubai Future Academy digital courses. Writing, translating and proofreading emailers, PowerPoint presentation, speeches, DFF website content, social media posts, video scripts and reports including the DFF’s flagship report ‘Future Opportunities Repot: The Global 50’, Life After Coved-19 reports, Precision Medicine reports, etc. and developing Arabic glossary for future terminologies, among others.
H+K Strategies, Dubai
Arabic Editor (Sept 2017- Oct 2019)
Translation of English press releases, PowerPoint presentation, speeches, reports and social media postsfor deferent clients in technology, health care, banking, government, sport, etc. Drafting Arabic press releases and opinion columns for clients. My responsibilities included drafting Arabic speeches for clients as well.
Active PR, Dubai
Arabic Communications Consultant (Oct 2014-May 2015)
Media pitching and media relations. Drafting interview pitches. Recommending how to target different media and customizing communications to them. Providing consultancy services for major Clients. Supporting the media relations teams with clients’ Arabic interviews.
Translating and creating interviews pitches or short write-ups in Arabic. During my tenure, we have served a long list of clients including Arbor Networks, Aspentech, Commscop, Xerox, Ruckus Wireless, Safenet, Parrot, WatchGuard, NVIDIA, JP Morgan, Towers Watson, CEB, Easa Saleh Al Gurg Group.
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Emirates Integrated Telecommunications Company (du), Dubai
Editor (March 2010-May 2014)
Defining CMS requirements for Anayou.com project and contributing to its development. Managing Anayou.com localization and content. Conducting interviews with celebrities to create videos and contents. Creating, editing and publishing entertainment, technology, health and beauty, business and society stories. Creating videos and photos of local events. Creating anayou.com YouTube, Facebook and Twitter content and managing it.
ITP Media Group, Dubai
Editor, ArabianBusiness.com/Arabic (Nov 2007- Feb 2010)
Writing, proofreading, editing and uploading daily business news stories. Leading team of journalists and editors their daily news stories. Updating main website page by selecting most important stories. Screening visitors’ comments and feedback. Analysing website traffic. Improving website features and services.
Editing and proofreading partly PC Magazine Arabia contents. Writing articles, news, tutorials for PC Magazine Arabia and Internet Arab World. Uploading PC Magazine Arabia web sites content.
Development Manager (Sept 1993- August 1997)
Writing customized Database Applications using Visual Basic. Leading software development team. Teaching and training students and employees (DOS, Windows, Access, Excel, Macintosh OS). Technical Support for Aleppo University.
Faculty of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria
Programming Lab instructor, (Feb 1989-August 1993)
Hands on students teaching for IT introduction, programming languages (Pascal, Basic, Assembly) DOS, Networks, OrCAD and CAD.
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University: Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria
Faculty: Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
