Translation, Interpretation

CURRICULUM VITAE

ONE: PERSONAL DATA

Name : Abdullah Rajab Ibrahim Qudsi

Place & date of birth : Zarqa, Jordan 3/6/1965

Nationality : Jordanian

Religion : Muslim

Marital Status : Married

Resident Address : Amman – Wasfi Tal Street, Behind Ministry of Culture P. O. Box 164, Amman 11953

Tel.: 5684285 - Mobile: 079/5588624

Email: acwf46@r.postjobfree.com

TWO: EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor Degree in English Language & Literature from Karachi University – Pakistan, 1987

THREE: PRACTICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

September 2007 – Till Now: Translator and interpreter, Commissioner General’s Office / United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). My responsibilities include the following:

Translate documents, reports and website content from English into Arabic and vice-versa for internal or external use.

Act as interpreter at press briefings, internal meetings and other official occasions as required.

Draft materials in English and Arabic for dissemination or any other purpose.

Review work of other translators.

February 2004 – September 2007: Assistant Public Information Officer / Translator at United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). My responsibilities in UNRWA included the following:

Maintaining regular contact with local and international media representatives.

Advising the director and the public information officer on local public relations and matters of interest to the Agency.

Drafting text in Arabic and English for PI materials.

Monitoring daily press and preparing daily/weekly press summaries in English.

Translating documents from Arabic into English and vice versa.

Briefing and escorting visitors and journalists, and interpreting when required.

Preparing for press conferences and facilitating its related arrangements. January 1996 – February 2004: Coordinator of the National Center for Population Communication at the Higher Population Council – General Secretariat

(HPC). My responsibilities in HPC included the following:

Librarian and system information manager for the library database system based on CDC/ISIS software.

Translation.

Editor of the HPC’s Journal “Population and Development” as well as the

“Population Bulletin”. This work included typesetting and designing of those publications.

Responsible for most of the HPC’s publications in terms of editing and printing matters.

HPC's Counterpart to PRB “Population Reference Bureau” in Washington.

Producing and editing HPC’s publications

June 1994 – January 1996: Librarian at the Petra University “Previously Jordan University for Women”

October 1991 – June 1994: Librarian at Al-Isra University October 1989 – October 1991: Librarian at Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation September 1987 – June 1989: English Language Teacher at Jordanian Armed Forces during my military service.

June 1987 – till now: Free-lance translator at some of translation offices in Jordan.

FOUR: TRAINING COURSES ATTENDED

Library Science & Computer applications: Shoman Foundation 23/9 - 1/11/1989.

Hebrew Language for beginners: Jordan University 3/2 - 7/3/1990.

Rules for arranging entries in catalogues, bibliographies & indexes: JLA

(Jordan Library Association) 19-21/3/1990.

Indexing & Thesaurus: JLA 15-19/12/1990.

Journalistic Archive: JLA 22-24/12/1990.

Translation: Jordan University 17/2-27/3/1991.

Indexing of non-book materials (audio-visual materials): JLA 11- 13/5/1991.

Computer networks: Isra University 16/10-3/11/1991.

Advanced CDS/ISIS: JLA 3-10/9/1994.

Indexing & cataloguing non book materials: JLA 6-12/8/1996.

Comprehensive Thesaurus: Shoman Foundation 28/9-3/10/1996.

Advanced Excel: Shomali infotec center 2-11/11/1996.

Adobe PhotoShop: Shomali infotec center 29/11-3/12/1997.

Study Tour at Center for Communication Programs / Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore – USA for two weeks in February 2001.

Computerized Video Production & Editing at Avaco Co. in Tokyo – Japan from 18/3 till 6/4/2002.

Report Writing – Amman 2003

Project Proposals – Amman 2003

Creative Thinking – Amman 2005

Media Skills for Public Information Officers / Center for Development Communication – Amman 2007

Positive Thinking – Amman 2009

FIVE: OTHER CAPABILITIES:

Full proficiency in Computer (Windows and Window-based software).

Good working knowledge in CorelDraw.

Knowledge of most technical aspects of printing (films, plates, types of papers, color separation … etc)

SIX: MEMBERSHIP:

UN Media & Communication Group in Jordan

Jordan Library Association

Arab Federation for Library & Information

Arab Organization for Human Rights

SEVEN: REFERENCES:

Dr. Zakaria Shiekh, Publisher, Fact International Weekly Magazine, Jordan. Tel: +962-**-*******.

Nasser Shadid, BBC’s correspondent in Jordan. Tel: +962-**-*******

Sulieman Khaldi, Reuter’s correspondent in Jordan. Tel: +962-**-******* EIGHT: TRANSLATION AND PUBLISHING:

The Preliminary Report of Jordanian DHS (Demographic & Health Survey) 1997, which was published in JNPC’s journal “Population & Development” – volume 4.

Trends in Demographic, Family Planning, and Health indicators in Jordan, 1976-1997, which was also published in the 5th volume of the same journal.

JAFS 2000 (Jordan Annual Fertility Survey 2000), which was published in volume 6 of the same journal.

“Population manual” booklet, “Making pregnancy safer” fact sheet, “Breast feeding Patterns” wall chart, “Reproductive Health” and “New Population Policies” booklets, which were produced in cooperation with PRB “Population Reference Bureau” in Washington. My efforts in these publications were translation, editing, typesetting, designing and printing all the above mentioned materials.

Producing and editing JNPC’s publications such as JNPC brochures “English & Arabic”, Population challenges to sustainable development in Jordan 2000- 2020 “Arabic” in cooperation with Dr. Issa Al-Massarweh, as well as producing the JNPC’s inventory of population studies in Jordan.

Editor of the JNPC’s Journal “Population and Development” as well as the

“Population Bulletin”. This work includes typesetting and designing of those publications.

NINE: TRAINER OF:

Basic and Advanced training courses in the libraries' computerized software

(CDS/ISIS).

Graphic Designing using Corel Draw for Beginners.

Various training courses and workshops in Library science (Indexing, Cataloguing, Classification, Marketing of Information, Lending … and other fields of library services).

Media and Communication.

How to deal with Media – (a training course given to staff of media section in Iraqi Parliament House), Amman - March 2005.

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