Morano El-Kholy

Senior English–Arabic language professional with 34 years of continuous professional experience in translation, editing, revision, localization, and linguistic quality assurance. Experienced in handling institutional, humanitarian, policy, technical, digital, and audiovisual content for international agencies, organizations, and direct clients. Extensive experience reviewing, editing, and refining English–Arabic content to ensure accuracy, clarity, consistency, appropriate terminology, cultural appropriateness, and adherence to the intended meaning and purpose of the source material.

Delivered more than 20 million words across 3,000+ translation and localization projects, including large-scale institutional and multimedia assignments. Experienced in working independently on high-volume projects while maintaining rigorous linguistic and quality standards. Former NAATI Translation Examiner (Arabic–English), with professional experience evaluating translations and assessing linguistic quality against established professional standards.

FREELANCE ENGLISH–ARABIC EDITOR, TRANSLATOR & LOCALIZATION SPECIALIST - Freelance - Egypt / Remote

(1991-08)

• Provide professional English–Arabic translation, editing, revision, proofreading, localization, and linguistic quality-assurance services for international agencies, organizations, agencies, and direct clients.
• Delivered more than 20 million words across 3,000+ translation and localization projects covering multiple professional and institutional domains.
• Translate, edit, revise, and review institutional, humanitarian, policy, technical, digital, and multimedia content, ensuring accuracy, clarity, consistency, terminology control, and cultural appropriateness.
• Review bilingual content systematically against source material to identify and correct linguistic, grammatical, terminological, stylistic, formatting, and consistency issues.
• Perform linguistic quality assurance and detailed review of translated content before delivery.
• Work independently on large-scale and time-sensitive projects while maintaining consistent quality and meeting agreed deadlines.
• Collaborated with international organizations and agencies, including Translators Without Borders, The Rosetta Foundation, FHI 360, and ISKME.
• Successfully completed large-scale translation, localization, and transcreation assignments for international clients.
• Localize websites, digital content, mobile applications, and multimedia materials for Arabic-speaking audiences.
• Edit and localize audiovisual content, including films, documentaries, corporate training, eLearning, marketing, and institutional media.
• Perform subtitle editing, synchronization, segmentation, and linguistic adaptation where required.
• Maintain professional confidentiality and quality standards when handling client materials and sensitive project content.
• Earned ProZ Certified PRO status for English↔Arabic.
• Received 96+ verified client reviews on ProZ, in addition to feedback on TranslatorsCafe and LinkedIn.

NAATI TRANSLATION EXAMINER — ARABIC↔ENGLISH - National Accreditation Authority for Translators and Interpreters (NAATI)

(2025-09 - 2026-01)

• Participated in a professional Arabic↔English translation assessment project.
• Evaluated translations and assessed linguistic quality at a professional examination level.
• Applied established linguistic and translation-quality standards when assessing candidates' work.
• Identified linguistic, grammatical, terminological, and translation-quality issues during professional assessment.

Diploma in Translation - English↔Arabic - American University in Cairo (AUC) (1993)

B.A. - Translation - Faculty of Al-Alsun, Ain Shams University (1991)

Higher Education Certificate - Al-Horreya English Language Schools (1987)