Lecture: Legal Translation at the UN System

CAIRO, 1 March 2023 — Fathi M. A. Ahmed delivered a lecture on "Legal Translation at the UN System" at the Faculty of Languages at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. The lecture focused on the unique challenges faced by legal translators working within the United Nations and the strategies used to address these challenges.

Ahmed discussed the critical resources available to legal translators, stressing the importance of accuracy in legal translation within the UN. He also presented several examples where inaccuracies in legal translation led to significant legal and political complications, illustrating the high stakes involved in this field.