Magdalena Badran
Date of birth: 5th September 1981
Marital status: Married
Address: Łukowska 1/17, 04-113 Warsaw
Telephone: +48 22 252 95 59
Mobile: +48 880 320706
Email:
[email protected]
EDUCATION
10/2008 – 05/2009 Warsaw University
Department of Polish Studies (Institute of Applied Polish Studies)
Postgraduate degree in Language Editing
10/2002 – 06/2003 Institute of Arabic Language for Foreigners, Damascus – Syria
Certificate of completion
10/2000 – 06/2006 Warsaw University
Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies (Oriental Institute)
MA in Arabic Studies
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
06/2006 – present Embassy of Lebanon in Poland, Warsaw
Translator
• Translations and proofreading of official correspondence, documents, legal acts (relative to civil law as well commercial exchange between Lebanon and the countries of accreditation of the Embassy of Lebanon in Poland), charters, certificates, brochures, press articles, speeches. (English-Polish, Arabic-Polish, Polish-Arabic, English-Arabic,)
• Occasionally interpreting during meetings.
01/2011 – present Translation and proofreading assignments (freelance)
• ANKOL: translation of commercial correspondence (English-Polish, Arabic-Polish)
• Alwa Pol: translation of articles of association (Arabic- Polish)
• CAPS Retail: translation of commercial documentation and instruction manuals (English-Polish,
English-Arabic
• Best Text: translation of a wedding menu (Polish-Arabic)
• Kselmed: proofreading an Arabic translation of medical equipment specifications
• Petrus: translation of the company’s description (Polish-Arabic)
• LOT Polish Airlines: translation of executive presentation (English-Polish)
• Bumar Sp. z o.o.:translation on tender documents (Arabic-Polish)
• Lemon Tree Translations: website translation (Polish-Arabic)
• GROHE Polska: website translation (English-Polish)
• Legal Translation Group LLP: translation of divorce certificate (Russian-Arabic)
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Polish mother tongue
Literary Arabic fluent spoken, written and read
Russian fluent spoken, written and read
English fluent spoken, written and read
COMPUTER SKILLS
Microsoft Word, Wordfast, Microsof Excel, Power Point
INTERESTS
Travel, Arabic culture, Russian literature.
Last update: April 2012