Bashar Said Email & Phone Number

With 20+ years of experience in English-Arabic translation and writing, I have honed my linguistic competency with extensive business expertise and technology savvy to conceptualize and design enlightening content projects. I employ story-telling style to boost positioning of products, services and websites that meet their branding vision, using advanced research tactics to analyze online and media sources into relevant insights, executive summaries and compelling deck pitches.I have provided bilingual services to numerous country-based UN & EU-based programs and cooperation agencies working in the country, which helped them reach wider audiences with engaging translations in various SDGs topics, including urban planning, sustainable development, finance and accounting, , engineering and IT. I also subtitled media documentaries, literary materials and marketing booklets.I have helped many college students achieve their academic goals by editing and optimizing their essays and research papers and enabled local start-ups kick start their enterprises by offering creative writing and content marketing, which boosted their visibility and maximized their productivity. Beside my proficient use of MS Office suite, I utilize the latest CAT tools and media applications such as:- Trados and MemoQ programs to manage and deliver high quality projects & maintain up-to- date TMs, term-bases and specialized glossaries. - Subtitle Workshop for video subtitling.- Video and audio editing programs to create engaging visuals.- Desktop Publisher and InDesign for aesthetic formatting and typeface. The 2020s is the era of post-digital disruption across industries and sectors, and more and more a customer-centric ecosystem. There is much to do in digitizing translation and content to live up to the globalization needs. Currently I am engaged in Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing to keep up with latest thinking of industry and stay relevant in an ever-transforming world.