Arabic ⇄ English translation

Arabic that reads as though it were written in Arabic.

Annual reports, disclosures, contracts and corporate communications for companies that publish in both languages across the Gulf.

Send me a document See a before and after

Trained at the King Fahd School of Translation, Tangier · Working Gulf hours

العربية

ترجمة احترافية من الإنجليزية إلى العربية للتقارير السنوية والإفصاحات والعقود.

نص عربي سليم واضح، لا ترجمة حرفية تحمل بنية الجملة الإنجليزية.

What I translate

Annual reports and disclosures

Financial statements, board reports, governance sections and regulatory filings that have to exist in both languages.

Contracts and legal documents

Agreements, terms, policies and correspondence where one wrong term changes an obligation.

Corporate communications

Press releases, investor updates, website copy and executive statements that need to sound deliberate in Arabic.

Internal and policy documents

Handbooks, codes of conduct, training material and procedures for bilingual workforces.

Before and after

Two errors that appear again and again in published Arabic corporate documents, and how the same line should read.

Example one · Annual report

English source. The Board recommended a cash dividend of 5% of share capital.

As commonly published

أوصى المجلس بأرباح نقدية بنسبة 5% من رأس المال.

As it should read

أوصى المجلس بتوزيعات نقدية بنسبة 5% من رأس المال.

Why it matters. A dividend is a distribution, not a profit. The first version tells a shareholder the company earned cash profits of 5% of its capital, which is a different statement from the one the board actually made, in a document filed with the regulator.

Example two · Results announcement

English source. Revenue rose 12%, driven by strong demand in the region.

As commonly published

ارتفعت الإيرادات بنسبة 12% مدفوعة من خلال الطلب القوي في المنطقة.

As it should read

ارتفعت الإيرادات بنسبة 12% بفعل قوة الطلب في المنطقة.

Why it matters. The first version carries English structure into Arabic word by word. It is understandable, but it reads as translated, and an investor who reads only Arabic notices that the company wrote its results in another language first.

How it works

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Send the document

Any format. I sign your NDA before anything confidential reaches me.

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A quote within four hours

A fixed price and a delivery date, based on word count and how technical the text is.

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Delivery and revision

Formatting preserved, terminology kept consistent, and one round of revisions included.

Who you would be working with

I translate between Arabic and English, and I work alone. The person who quotes your document is the person who translates it, and the person who answers when you have a question about a term.

I trained at the King Fahd School of Translation in Tangier, one of the oldest translation schools in the Arab world, where work is graded on precision rather than fluency alone.

Languages Arabic and English, both directions
Register Formal Modern Standard Arabic
Capacity Around 2,500 words a day
Terminology A termbase and style guide kept for each client

Questions I am usually asked

What does it cost?

Pricing is per word and depends on the document. Send it over and you will have a fixed quote rather than a range.

How quickly?

Most documents come back within two to three working days. Urgent work is possible when the calendar allows it.

Is my document confidential?

Yes. I sign your NDA before receiving anything, and no client material is put through public machine translation.

Do you handle certified documents?

My work is corporate rather than court-certified. Anything to be notarised or filed with a Gulf court needs a locally licensed sworn translator, and I will say so rather than take the job.

Send one page and see the difference.

I will translate up to 300 words of your own material at no cost, so you can compare it against what you have now.

contact@redwanetranslation.com