This website has been created as a place to share Fathi M. A. Ahmed's thoughts, activities and work on language and translation. You will also find contributions from colleagues and mentors. The website also includes materials for Ahmed's own students and trainees. The website's editors hope that you will enjoy exploring it. Your feedback is always welcome.
A new book by Fathi M. A. Ahmed, Thinking Like a Legal Translator, is to be launched as a practice-driven guide to the craft, pressures, and professional judgment that define high-stakes legal translation. Framed as a “journey” through real working conditions, the book sets out to make visible what often remains hidden in finished translated texts: the decisions, risks, and trade-offs that shape legal meaning across languages.
At the heart of the book is an attempt to map how professional legal translators actually think—especially when precision is not merely stylistic, but legally consequential. Across four chapters and a set of document-based appendices, the work argues that legal translation is less about replacing words than about managing legal effect, institutional expectations, and the reader’s ability to rely on the target text as an operative instrument. A Roadmap to “the Opposite Shore”
Chapter I introduces readers to the translator’s mental workspace, following step by step the typical challenges encountered in professional assignments and the strategies used to address them...(See more)
Fathi M. A. Ahmed delivered a comprehensive lecture titled "Legal Translation: An Overview" to translators of the Arab Organization for Industrialization (AOI). The session provided an in-depth exploration of legal translation's critical role and its distinct challenges, focusing on real-world examples, including the famous Siag v. Egypt case, where a translation error contributed to Egypt's loss of millions of dollars... (See more)
Fathi M. A. Ahmed delivered a keynote speech at the First Translation Professionals' Meeting, held in Banha, Egypt. His presentation, titled "Translation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Solutions," addressed the significant impact of AI on the translation industry...(See more)
Fathi M. A. Ahmed delivered the keynote speech at the opening session of the Third International Conference on Media Production and Translation in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Transformations, hosted by Nahda University (NUB) in Egypt...(See more)
In the era of advanced technology, both the aviation and translation industries have witnessed transformative innovations that significantly enhance productivity. Autopilot systems in airplanes and AI-driven machine translation (MT) tools are prime examples of how automation can optimize workflows and reduce human effort in repetitive tasks...(See more)
In today’s rapidly evolving world of translation, particularly in the context of international legal projects, advanced technologies play a pivotal role. This was demonstrated in the successful completion of the Arabic translation of the Lexsitus Commentary on the Law of the International Criminal Court (CLICC)...(See more)
Arabic Lexsitus Team announced the successful completion of the Arabic translation of the Lexsitus Commentary on the Law of the International Criminal Court (CLICC)...(See more)
In a contribution to the newly released anthology Religion, Hateful Expression, and Violence, Fathi M. A. Ahmed provided key insights on how religious leaders can more effectively combat hate speech. His chapter, titled Translational and Terminological Sensitizing of Muslim Religious Leaders of Al-Azhar in the Combat Against Hate Speech, delves into how language and translation play a pivotal role in shaping counter-narratives to extremist ideologies...(See more)
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