امنح نصوصك الإنجليزية قلبًا عربيًا نابضًا
Bilingual writer and translator, English and Arabic. I write copy that does its job, and translate so nothing flattens on the way across. Ten years, 6,000+ projects, for brands, executives, publishers, and a few regulators who read every line twice.
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About
I’m Hassan, and I came to language the long way, through civil engineering. Not a route any guidance counselor recommends. Six years on Egyptian construction sites, working up from site engineer to planner, taught me one rule fast: a single vague word in a spec and the wall doesn’t hold. I write and translate with that same paranoia.
I started taking translation jobs on the side in 2017, until the side became the whole thing. Ten years and more than 6,000 projects later, across 2,200-plus clients and north of 5 million words, the rule hasn’t moved. I still read every line like an inspector walking a slab before the pour.
The work pulls in two directions. There’s the translation, from a Kirkus-starred fantasy trilogy to annual reports filed with Saudi regulators. And there’s everything I write from the blank page: websites, landing pages, campaigns, and the LinkedIn posts executives get the credit for. English and Arabic both, with Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian, and Gulf (Khaleeji) on hand depending on who’s reading. Nothing I send out reads like a translation, and no sentence clocks out early. Whatever you put your name on holds up in front of the people who read for a living, whether that’s an auditor, the CMA, or a thirteen-year-old who’ll shut the book the second a line of dialogue rings false.
A few engagements worth showing, translation and original content both, across finance, tech, hospitality, and fiction.
I translated chatbot scripts and social content for UNICEF’s global youth campaigns. The brief never really changed. Modern Standard Arabic, but in a conversational register that reads like an actual chat to a teenager, not a press release in disguise. The most recent run was an environmental campaign built to get teenagers to do something about the climate, which is a much harder writing job than it sounds.
I handle the Egyptian Arabic across Hostinger’s product suite. Marketing pages, the product UI, the help center, customer emails. My job is keeping one voice steady everywhere a user might land, from the homepage to the password reset email nobody enjoys reading. Egyptian Arabic done right for a global tech product is a narrow skill, and it’s the one they hand me.
I work with Al Rajhi Capital, one of the largest investment firms in the Gulf and part of the Al Rajhi Banking Group, on their financial and corporate content. That has covered the 2023 and 2024 annual reports, the chairman’s letter, the CEO message, business segments, the sukuk and IPO material, governance, the financial overview. Annual report translation for a Saudi financial institution is its own discipline. The Arabic has to satisfy the auditors, the IR team, and the CMA at once, across registers that swing from leadership voice to dense financial reporting to outright legal language. Being handed the same report two years running is the part that mattered most.
I translated the 2024 annual report for Avalon Pharma, a Saudi pharmaceutical company that listed on Tadawul that February. All 145 pages of it. Chairman’s letter, CEO message, business model and operational review, the ACE strategy framework, investor relations, ESG, governance, board and executive bios. The Arabic shipped as the official version filed with the Saudi Capital Market Authority. That is the kind of work I like best, the document a company actually puts its name on.
I’ve worked with Cipher Saudi, a Saudi cybersecurity firm serving enterprise clients in the Kingdom, across several projects. The biggest was a technical proposal north of 100 pages covering SOC services, threat intelligence, GRC, penetration testing, red teaming, and DFIR. Cybersecurity translation comes with its own rules. The acronyms stay in English because that’s what the audience actually says out loud, and the Arabic around them has to be precise enough that a security architect never loses three seconds wondering which term you meant.
I run the bilingual content for a portfolio of GCC hospitality and corporate brands, Novotel and Holiday Inn among them. This is the writing-from-scratch side of the practice: hotel websites and landing pages, in-room and dining content, seasonal promos, email flows, and the social calendars that keep a property visible between bookings. I also built the style guides and the review workflow it all runs through, so properties across Saudi and the UAE sound like themselves instead of like a template. Writing room copy that gets someone to actually book is a different muscle from translating a report, and it’s one I use every week.
B.E. Boucher’s Jonster the Monster & the Bear (The Sceptre, The Secret City, and Elstrom Legacy) is a young-adult fantasy series that earned a coveted Kirkus Star (given to fewer than 90 of some 3,000 indie titles a year) and reached #1 on Amazon. I translated all three books into Arabic across eighteen months, holding voice, pacing, and the rhythm of teen dialogue steady from the first page of book one to the last of book three, the part that’s far harder than it looks. It’s a story the author wrote in honour of his late son, and carrying it into Arabic was a privilege.
“A bracing adventure: fun, fast, and with themes like love, friendship, and the power of family.”Kirkus Reviews · starred review
Sample work
A cross section of real work, from annual reports filed with regulators to hotel campaigns and published literary fiction. The writing and the translation, side by side.
A curated cross section. Corporate, financial, hospitality, and literary.
Pick a lane, or a few. They tend to overlap anyway.
Client reviews
A few from clients across the US, UK, and the Gulf. Read them all on Fiverr →
The quality of the work is outstanding. The translation is easy to read, and he went above and beyond to make the format match the original exactly. 100 percent satisfied.
Rob S. · United StatesHassan is an extremely professional translator, detail-focused, and he makes sure every translation is up to standard, working with you until you're satisfied. Look no further for English and Arabic, and hire him today.
DeForrest Int'l · United StatesI wish everything I ordered worked out this well! The Arabic translation was excellent and reached us in less time than our deadline. Even on a sub-24-hour turnaround, we couldn't be happier.
Jamila B. · United StatesVery high-quality translation of a highly technical classical Arabic legal document. I definitely recommend his services.
A. Aziz · United StatesHassan was fantastic, very responsive, completed the job quickly, and did a great job. Would absolutely use him again!
Olivia J. · United StatesI highly recommend Mr. Hassan Zeyad for any translation work, very professional, top-quality work. It definitely won't be the last time we work together.
Omer · United Arab EmiratesExcellent work from Hassan! Communication was smooth and he's always eager to go the extra mile. He suggests alternatives and discusses the right translation based on the context.
Hamza I. · United Arab EmiratesHassan was extremely professional, quick with his service and his responses. I cannot wait to use him again, thank you so much!
Annie S. · United Arab EmiratesI've worked with Hassan on multiple projects, and once again he delivered exceptional results. Communication is commendable, the process smooth, and he consistently meets deadlines without compromising quality. Highly recommended!
Esther · United KingdomFantastic experience. I spoke with Hassan within five minutes and had my translation soon after, and he gave me multiple options too. Thank you, sir!
Barclay · United KingdomI worked with Hassan Zeyad blindly, I just delivered the documents, and received more than I wanted. I recommend him to anyone needing translation, English to Arabic and Arabic to English.
HighLevel IT · Saudi ArabiaI ordered a 1,500-word contract translated from English to Arabic and he delivered it in a single day, I was honestly surprised, mashallah. Will definitely be back.
Suli · Saudi Arabia
Tell me what you’re working on and I’ll tell you straight whether I’m the right person for it.
من لغةٍ إلى لغة … ومن معنى إلى أثر
From one language to another, and from meaning to impact.
