Ibrahim Kamel

Question and Answer

• What is your name?
  • Ibrahim Kamel
• Where do you live?
  • Saudi Arabia
• What made you decide to become a translator or interpreter?
  • I have been graduated from the Faculty of Languages and Translation
• List one strength that you think sets you apart from your colleagues.
  • Accuracy
• Name the one thing that you most enjoy in your translating or interpreting career.
  • Knowledge
• We all have worked on those not-so-perfect assignments. Write about one such assignment that was not ideal and what you learned from it.
  • A medical leaflet that was very strange to my experience, but I'm now good at translating such leaflets. It became easy and I sometimes wish to have more of it when I'm tired of other jobs.
• If you could go back in time to when you were just starting out as a translator or interpreter, what advice would you give to your younger self?
  • Read more in most fields in pair of languages to get better knowledge and to be subject-matter stylistic in your translations.
• Name one resource – such as a phone app, CAT tool, website, and so forth – that you find especially helpful in your translating or interpreting work.
  • Al-Qamoos website.
• What's the best book you've read this year?
  • Effective self-confidence