Nadia Zahran is Roevin Translation Services’ longest serving member of staff and heads up our Arabic typesetting team. With over 28 years’ experience translating and typesetting documents in Arabic, Nadia has seen an enormous change in the way Arabic is typeset. At the beginning of her career, the process was extremely complex with the Arabic text typed onto a computer producing paper tape, which then had to be put through another machine, edited, measured, put on film and processed! Today, things have changed considerably with Arabic now typeset into software packages such as Microsoft Word, Quark XPress and Adobe Illustrator for example. A great deal of painstaking work is needed to ensure that the Arabic final document – which is a “flipped” image of the English as Arabic reads right to left – accurately represents the English layout.

A graduate in Commerce from the University of Cairo, Nadia has a wealth of experience, which assists our non-Arabic staff to grasp the complexities of the language and the typesetting process.