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It’s a sunny day in Araraquara, a not-so-small town in the state of São Paulo. This day got me thinking about the transition I'm going...

Thanks to Chinthi and a conversation about translating translations of poems. In my eyes, there is poetry in everything. The way a vine...

Are translators born or made? Here’s my take on this rhetorical question. As a child, I had exceptionally blond hair. As a child, I liked...

One day, there was a business owner looking for a translator to edit his educational products to learn Spanish. This person had doubts...

Have you ever encountered a word in your mother tongue that you didn’t know how to translate? I was telling a non-Arabic speaking friend...

Life often resembles a delicate symphony, a harmonious blend of diverse elements that come together to create a unique masterpiece. For...

(from Quiet Places: Collected Essays) In 2019, Peter Handke won the Nobel Prize for Literature. In 2022, FSG (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)...

On a bright day, Pedro, who is a translator, was dealing with many dilemmas in his life. One of his thoughts was about how to get new...

Something happened yesterday that gave me food for thought. Like every other day, I took out the garbage, just around the time the truck...

Translation isn’t only a world where I convert context from one language to another. It’s a  continuous learning process that enriches my...

I remember those days when I was young, sometimes, my family and I watched Egyptian series on Nile TV, a TV channel which broadcasted...

In the realm of linguistic barriers, the first steps toward breaking them down are often the most crucial. As a driving force behind ProZ...

According to the Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs pyramid, having a sense of belonging is one of our main needs as human beings, just above...

She was gone. She had passed away. The reality of her death haunted me every day, and the pain was unbearable. I missed her terribly (I...

After all the struggle with my typewriter, I reasoned that it would be best to jot down everything and then type the text. I devoted days...

I did not study Arabic, English or translation. When people ask, “Why did you choose to translate?” my answer is “bad Arabic, bad...

Have you ever had the impression that the Supreme Alien Entity of Mars was plotting against you or your translation job?

In 2019, I was living happily in the UK, I had married for the second time and had a nice job. As I used to do every year, ever since...