Ten-plus years translating and typesetting multilingual publications for UNICEF, UNDP and UNV. Translation, QA and the final InDesign file all come from the same desk — no relay between separate teams.
"Clients get an accurate, culturally sound translation and a publication-ready file — no back-and-forth between separate translation and design teams."
Most translators hand a finished Word file to a separate designer, and something always gets lost in the relay — a mistranslated caption that never gets flagged, a Burmese font that doesn't render, an RTL paragraph that breaks under a title box. I close that gap myself.
I work end to end: translating and reviewing English–Arabic content, then producing the final print-ready and digital layout in Adobe InDesign — sourcing non-Latin fonts, solving non-standard layout problems, and running post-translation QA before anything ships.
My work reaches readers through direct freelance commissions and through agency partnerships, on publications for UNICEF, UNDP and UNV — from national household surveys to child-poverty policy briefs, in multi-script layouts spanning Arabic, Burmese, Devanagari, Cyrillic, Kayah Li and more.
English–Arabic translation, proofreading, revision and post-translation QA on every file before it leaves my desk.
Expert Adobe InDesign production — typesetting for LTR and RTL languages, multilingual formatting and print-ready packaging.
Rebuilding scanned or damaged source documents into clean, editable, publication-ready files.
Tagged, structured PDF accessibility that meets PDF/UA standards for screen readers and assistive technology.
Running multilingual translation and DTP projects end to end, from scoping through delivery.
Source text translated English↔Arabic with attention to register, terminology and cultural fit.
A dedicated review pass catches linguistic and consistency errors before layout begins.
LTR and RTL multi-script layout in InDesign, non-Latin fonts sourced and fitted to the design.
Final layout QA, then export to print-ready PDF or packaged InDesign files.
Full translation and multi-chapter DTP for a national urban household survey report.
Translation and typesetting for a policy brief on child poverty and deprivation.
End-to-end production from source manuscript to print-ready report.
Translation, QA and layout for a national child poverty assessment.
Translation and DTP for a national assessment of multidimensional child poverty.
Chapter-linked .indb workflow across Burmese, Kinyarwanda, Nepali, Russian and Ukrainian.
Reconstruction and formatting across a large batch of scanned source files.
English and Arabic translation, with DTP and typesetting support for RTL Arabic plus non-Latin scripts including Burmese, Devanagari, Cyrillic and Kayah Li.
Packaged InDesign files, print-ready PDFs, and translated source files in the format you provided — Word, InDesign or otherwise.
Per-page or per-word, depending on the project. Send the source file and I'll come back with a scope and quote within a day.
Depends on length and script complexity — a short brief can turn around in days, a multi-chapter book is scoped as a weekly workplan.
Send the source file and a word or page count, and I'll come back with a scope and timeline — translation, DTP, or both.