Dina Al-Mahdy
Member No. 541
SKILLS
- ARABIC - ENGLISH
- ENGLISH - ARABIC
- FRENCH - ARABIC
- FRENCH - ENGLISH
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
- TRANSLATION
- EDITING / PROOFREADING
- SUBTITLING
- COPYWRITING
- LOCALIZATION
- VOICEOVER/DUBBING
- LAYOUT / DTP
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
An editor and translator, Publishing department, Bibliotheca Alexandrina
SPECIALIZATION AREAS
- ARTS AND HUMANITIES - SCIENCES - PERSONAL AND COMMERCIAL CORRESPONDENCE - SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT - ECONOMICS AND FINANCE - EDUCATION - ENERGY / POWER / OIL AND NATURAL GAS - ELECTRONICS - PHARMACEUTICALS - GENERAL - FOOD AND BEVERAGES - COMPUTING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION - INVESTMENT AND BANKING - LEGAL - LITERATURE - INDUSTRY - MEDICINE AND HEALTH - ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY - AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA - BUSINESS AND INSURANCE - JOURNALISM - RELIGION - TRANSPORT AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS - TOURISM AND TRAVEL
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
Translation: Head of Projects Coordination Unit at the Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina). Editor and Translator at the Library of Alexandria (Bibliotheca Alexandrina). Freelance translator and editor at the following organizations and publishing houses: o Cairo Laboratory for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research (CLUSTER) o Dawen Publishing House o Austin Macauley Publishing House o Bloomsbury Publishing House o Meedan organization o The Free Speech Debate website, the Dahrendorf Programme for the Study of Freedom at St Antony's College in the University of Oxford o The National Center for Translation of the Ministry of Culture in Egypt o Sphinx Publishing House Writing and Copyediting: Contributing writer in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Quarterly Newsletters. Freelance Contributing writer in Elephant Journal, USA. Freelance Contributing writer in Medium, USA. Freelance Contributing writer in Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd., UK. Freelance English editor at the Alexandria Regional Center for Women's Health and Development, Alexandria. Freelance English/Arabic copyeditor at Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing. Freelance writer and translator at the Bloomsbury Publishing. Freelance writer and translator at Women of Egypt magazine. Freelance Contributing writer in Al-Ahram Weekly, Egypt.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Associate at International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) Member at the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA) Member at International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies (IATIS) Member at Translators Without Borders (TWB) Member at the International Association for Professional Translators and Interpreters (IAPTI). Certified International Translator, authorized by the Egyptian Translators Association (EGYTA) and the International Federation of Translation (FIT), UNESCO. Member at the Egyptian Syndicate for Translators and Linguists (ETLS).
SOFTWARE
Desktop Publishing Tools: Adobe Acrobat Professional XI Adobe InDesign CS6 ME Adobe Photoshop CS6 ME Adobe Illustrator CS6 ME Computer Assisted Translation Tools: SDL Trados Studio 2017 SDLX Lite WordFast 6.0 Pro Microsoft Local Studio 6.0 Web Publishing Tools: HTML and CSS Styles Adobe Flash Professional CS6 Adobe Dreamweaver CS6 Adobe Photoshop for Web CS6
