Consular assistant
Mexican embassy
Total years of experience :11 years, 9 Months
Served as a consular assistant in the consular section of the Mexican embassy in Lebanon. My duties included customer service such as handling the visa application, interviewing applicants, collecting biometrics, responding to clients’ enquiry. I also assisted in the translation and interpretation of interviews from Spanish to Arabic and vice versa and undertook administrative tasks such as archiving, data entry…
I have handled many projects including typing recipes in Arabic for Al Wadi El Akhdar, moving the content of a website called Tawasoul on a new platform as well as typing and formatting an Arabic report and translating a small video from English into Arabic.
Served as a translator of technical and functional documents related to the company from French to English. The work also consisted in translating various documents (contract, power point presentations…) in different combinations (French to English and vice versa).
Served as a translator in Knowledge view of economic and business articles issued by the Down Jones Newswire agency from English to Arabic. Knowledge View Ltd is a UK-based company with headquarters in London and MENA regional office in Beirut; it has also established a leading position in mobile apps development on the iPad, iPhone, Android tablet and Web-mobile platforms. Down Jones Newswire is one of its clients, it is a leading provider of global business news and information services.
Served as a translator of articles in various categories (architecture, fashion, decoration) from English into French. Served also as a writer of some articles in French (tourism in Portugal, conifers, traditional Lebanese houses). Mondanité is the leading lifestyle and social magazine in Lebanon.
