Interpreter

HEBA METWALLY

Braddock Heights, MD 301-***-**** • *****@********.*** ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Skilled translator with 24 years of experience, as well as over two decades of experience as a media specialist and researcher in the journalism field. Supervisory experience in book translation and media research. Published in over 15 various publications.

SKILLS

Language Skills

•"Arabic into English" & "English into Arabic" Translation.

•Arabic (Native)

•English (Fluent)

Research Skills

•Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods

•Media Research in Developmental Issues

•Visual/Anthropology Studies

•Statistics

Software Skills

•SPSS

•Excel

•PowerPoint

•Adobe Premiere and Morphing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Temporary On-Call Interpreter March 2020-present

Prince Georges County Public Schools

Translating notifications into Arabic language published or recorded for Arabic speakers.

Interpreting in different occasions whenever needed.

Court Interpreter June 2022 – present

Consecutive Interpretation

Sight translation

Teacher/Substitute teacher April 2021- present

Montgomery County Public Schools

Helping in the special education program.

Currently teaching Grade 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8 classes.

Assisting students in their tasks and assignments.

Certified Community Health Worker (Maryland Certification) September 2021-Feb.2022

Asian American Center of Frederick

Working on research analysis regarding COVID-19

Outreach People with credible information

Interpret during events and translate documents and surveys.

Coordinate and help newcomers of Afghani refugees to integrate in the society.

Substitute teacher April 2021- August 2021

Montgomery County Public Schools

Ensuring with parents that students are attending from the beginning of program.

Currently teaching Grade 3, 4, & 5 class during the summer program.

Assisting students in their tasks and assignments.

Self-Employed Interpreter and Language Instructor Sept. 2020 - Apr. 2021

Self-Employed through some Human Rights Agencies

•Translate documents.

•Interpret for their clients.

Self-Employed Language Instructor through Wyzant

•Teach online Arabic Classes.

•Teach online English Classes.

•Proofreader of English and Arabic Languages.

Arabic Instruction Fellow Jan 2019 - August 2019

University of Maryland Graduate Studies Interpreting and Translation Program, College Park, MD

•Taught Arabic Fluency Class for graduate students in the interpreting program.

•Improved pronunciation especially alphabetical letters which have no equivalent speech sound in English.

•Enhanced writing and listening skills and practiced translation from English into Arabic.

Supervisor - Book Translation Department Oct 2017- Jan 2019

State Information Service (SIS), Cairo, Egypt

•Supervised 6 full-time employees and 40 translators in the process of translation, editing, and revising of books and studies.

•Developed and maintained a close working relationship with translators from the SIS or outside to ensure enhanced cooperation and effective working relationships.

•Worked with other SIS departments such as the publishing and printing house as a team to implement book publication procedures.

•Trained new staff on translation and editing skills using correct Arabic grammar.

•Managed the department’s administrative affairs, as well as revising and signing financial payroll for translators.

Senior English Translator & Media Specialist June 2013- Oct 2017

Book Translation Department, State Information Service (SIS), Cairo, Egypt

•Translated and reviewed foreign political books from English into Arabic.

•Evaluated and analyzed foreign books and studies

•Revised the translation of book reviews in Arabic.

•Teach new translators translation and editing skills.

Media Coordinator & Translator Dec 2007- Aug 2008

Population Policies and Migration Department, League of Arab States, (LAS) Cairo, Egypt

•Translated LAS websites such as, LAS Youth Forum, Arab Youth Summit, and the LAS Population Policies and Migration website

•Prepared for and organized coverage by the media of LAS youth forums and summits; prepared invitations for journalists to facilitate their attendance and coverage of these events.

•Collaborated with Egyptian journalists and media persons by emailing them press releases, newsletters, brochures.

Assistant to the Dean of the Library Sep 2005- June 2007

American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt

•Organized the office working files and labeling them.

•Took appointments for the Library Dean and her affiliates.

•Part time position (AUC Work for Study Aid Program).

English Translator & Media Specialist Jan 2004- June 2013

State Information Service (SIS), Cairo, Egypt

•Translated and edited foreign political books and studies assigned for translation.

•Worked on books evaluation and gave feedback regarding which books should be translated.

•Joined the State Information Service Press Conference that replies to inquiries during the Egyptian presidential elections.

Translator Mar 2001- Jan 2004

Abdeen Palace, Presidency of the Republic of Egypt

•Translated daily correspondence at the Grand Chamberlain’s Office, Protocol Department, Presidential Headquarters, Abdeen Palace.

•Translated programs of the visits of Their Majesties Kings and Their Excellencies Presidents visiting the country.

•Prepared plenipotentiary credentials for ambassadors to be presented to Their Majesties Kings and Their Excellencies Presidents of other foreign countries.

English Translator & Media Specialist Oct 1997- Mar 2001

State Information Service (SIS), Cairo, Egypt

● Translated, edited, and analyzed news bulletins of the foreign news channels such as CNN & BBC.

● Prepared the daily report of the SIS Newsroom.

● Attended a multi-day media conference on the topic of "Islam and the Other" on behalf of the SIS and prepared a daily written report.

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Journalism 2017

Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Post-Graduate Studies, Anthropology 2012

Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Master of Arts (MA), Journalism & Mass Communication 2008

American University in Cairo (AUC), Cairo, Egypt.

Post-Bachelor (Two-Year Diploma), Journalism 2001

Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Language & Literature 1996

Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

PUBLICATIONS & ACADEMIC CONFERENCES:

Metwally’s interests include media and journalism, visual anthropology, developmental and political communication, investigating the image of women and children.

Publications:

•Metwally, H. (2018) Terror in the Dark: Encryption, the Dark Net, and Cryptocurrencies, Published translation by the SIS.

•Metwally, H. (2018) How the American Newspapers Cover Jan. 25th Revolution, Published Dissertation, Cairo University Main Library

•Saleh, I., Metwally, H., (2017) Dealing with Political and Cultural Crisis in a Troubled Middle East Region,,in George, A and Kewansah-Aidoo, K (Eds). Culture and Crisis Communication: Transboundary Cases from Nonwestern Perspectives. Wiley Publishers, pp. 21-37

•Metwally, H (2015) Child Labor Phenomenon: A Visual Communication and Anthropological Study in Egypt. In UNICEF’s A Book of Papers: Proceedings of the International Conference on Institutionalization of Child Rights in the Digital Future, ICRDF Full Papers Booklet.

•Metwally, H. (2014) Economic Reform in Middle East and North Africa, Published book review by the SIS.

•Metwally, H. (2013) Limitations of Standoff Firepower Based Operations, Published book review by the SIS.

•Metwally, H. (2013) Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle, Published book review by the SIS.

•Metwally, H. (2012) Rethinking the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime, Published translation by the SIS.

•Metwally, H. (2010) Digital Media and Youth Responsibility, Published translation by the Ministry of Culture.

• Metwally, H. (2008) The Cross and The Nile, Published book review by the SIS.

•Metwally, H. et al (2008) Nasser and the Missile Age in the Middle East, Published translation by the SIS.

•Metwally, H. (2008) The Role of Egyptian Film in Stereotyping Single Women, Published Thesis, American University in Cairo, https://dar.aucegypt.edu/handle/10526/3358

•Metwally, H. (2001) The Arab Perception of Turkey and its Alignment with Israel, Published translation by the State Information Service (SIS).

•Metwally, H. (2000) A People Betrayed: The Role of The West in Rwanda's Genocide, Published book review by the SIS.

•Metwally, H. (2000) The Eritrean-Ethiopian War. Published book review by the SIS.

•Metwally, H. et al (2004) Egypt: A Short History, Unpublished translation by the SIS.

Presentations

•Presented: COVID-19's Lockdown and AACF Lessons and Insights: Content and Discourse Analyses to Encounter any Mental Health Effects on Frederick's Arab/Muslim Population to the Muslim Mental Health Conference, USA, March25-26, 2022.

•Presented: Revisiting Edward Said’s theme “Western Superiority Vs. Arab Inferiority to the IAMCR Conference in Leicester, UK in 2016.

•Presented: Child Labor Phenomenon: A Visual Communication and Anthropological Study in Egypt at the IAMCR Conference in Hyderabad, India, July 15 –19, 2014.

•Guest speaker: Presented a paper on Stereotyping Single Women in Egyptian Movies in CAMMRO's (SPELL OUT CAMMRO—What does it mean?) Conference at Goldsmiths, University of London on February 16th, 2008.

•Guest speaker: Presented a paper on Arab League Youth Observatory in CAMMRO's Conference at King’s College, University of London on June 16th, 2008.

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