Beirut, Lebanon
Taking commissions for 2026بين العربية والإنجليزية
Professional translation and editorial services for published books, peer-reviewed journals, and policy reports. Helping ideas travel between languages with precision, clarity, and care.
Experience
15+ Volumes
Specialization
CAUS & SIPRI
Standard
IJMES & Chicago
Selected work
Editorial & Production
Editorial and production coordination for an international peer-reviewed journal bringing Arab scholarship on regional politics and society to global English readers.
English to Arabic
Translation of official thematic summaries for the landmark yearbook on armaments, disarmament, non-proliferation and international security.
English to Arabic
Comprehensive academic translation of Dr. Yousef Choueiri's seminal exploration into intellectual history, political secularism, and theology in the Arab world.
Additional Featured Monographs & Memoirs
Full bibliography (12)2025
SIPRI / Cross-Border Conflict Evidence, Policy and Trends
Policy and empirical research report detailing cross-border conflict dynamics, illicit trade, and local security governance in the Middle East and North Africa.
2024
Historical Archive / CAUS Studies
Monumental 3-volume scholarly documentary history analyzing state formation, political institutions, and revolutionary governance in Egypt, Syria, and Iraq.
2020
–2024
SIPRI Consortium
The definitive annual reference work on world armaments, conflicts, non-proliferation, and military expenditure, translated into authoritative Arabic for policymakers and scholars.
الترجمة ليست نقلاً للألفاظ، بل تفكيكٌ لبنية الفكر وإعادة إحيائها في لسانٍ آخر.
Translation is not the carrying over of words. It is taking a thought’s structure apart and bringing it back to life in another tongue.
Every commission starts here: a glossary of the text’s load-bearing terms, agreed with the author or editor before the first paragraph is drafted.
Services
Most projects are one of these. If yours sits between them, describe it and I will tell you honestly whether it is work I should be doing.
Arabic ↔ English
Monographs, peer-reviewed articles and policy studies, in either direction. Transliteration follows IJMES or Chicago, whichever the press requires, and stays consistent across a multi-author volume.
Pre-production
Line editing, citation audit and bibliography standardisation for manuscripts going to Brill, Routledge and university presses. Quotations are checked against the Arabic and Western sources they came from.
Tahqīq
Palaeographic transcription, collation of divergent witnesses, and XML/TEI markup for digital critical editions of classical Arabic manuscripts.
About Mohammad
I work at the intersection of international publishing, regional research, and linguistic precision. Based in Ras Beirut, my practice focuses on academic and policy translation, scholarly copyediting, and manuscript research (tahqīq).
I collaborate with presses, research institutes and authors to bring Arabic and English into closer conversation, ensuring complex works travel with precision, context, and authority.
Writing
One note a week on whatever the week’s work turned up: a term that would not cross, a colophon that moved a date, a house style worth arguing with.
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How digital tools, multispectral imaging, and text-encoding initiatives (TEI) are revitalizing the critical edition and verification of classical Arabic manuscripts.
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Translating contemporary Arab political memoirs requires more than lexical accuracy—it demands an intimate attunement to ideological undertones, rhetorical cadence, and historical subtext.
Share the language pair, approximate word count, and target timeframe. You will have a scope, estimate, and realistic delivery date within two working days.