
Training Workshops
Training Workshops
Learn Translation & Interpreting with the TII Translation and Training Center!
The Translation and Training Center aims at promoting community development and building capacity in Qatar and the region through continuing education (professional development) opportunities in translation and interpreting.
The Center provides practicing translators, interpreters and communication specialists with opportunities to continue their professional development through specialized workshops that aim to enhance and expand skill sets and provide orientation in key technological innovations and new methodologies in the field of translation and interpreting. The Center offers both regular workshops and tailored workshops for the community throughout the academic year.
We are committed to serving the needs of busy professionals and university students in Qatar and the region. Our team of experienced trainers utilizes engaging approaches to teaching that make learning fun and effective.
We offer workshops in a wide range of specialties around the year. They include but are not restricted to:
- Accessible Hospitality and Events
- Audiovisual Translation: Subtitling
- Basic Principles of Legal Translation
- Business Arabic Writing
- Interpreting Basics
- Learn the Basics of Professional Translation
- Literary Translation
- Master the Technique of Note-taking
- Media Translation
- Medical Translation
- Professional Interpreting
- Professional Translator’s Toolkit
- Revision and Quality Assurance
- Translating Sports
- Translation in Business & Finance
- Translation of News and Views
- Translation Technology: SDL Trados
- Voice Over – Voicing Documentaries Demystified!
Customized Workshop Offerings
TTC offers customized training workshops to organization and entities with content tailored specifically to their needs. Together and in advance, we determine the level of knowledge of training workshop participants so learning content and objectives can be adapted to their needs.
Are you looking for a customized training workshop within your organization? Our team is able to organize customized training workshops by:
- Collaborating with your team to evaluate your organization’s training needs and requirements.
- Designing customized training workshop to meet those needs of your employees.
- Deliver training workshops when and where it works best for your organization; whether onsite, at TII’s premises, or online.
To start the conversation, you may contact us through TTC@hbku.edu.qa.
Public Workshop Offerings
Our workshop annual cycle usually starts in September and ends in the following June.
- Workshop Format:
- Face-to-face: 12 hours / 4 days / Sunday to Wednesday / 4-7pm / TII premises
- Online: 12 hours / 8 days / Sunday to Wednesday / 4-5:30pm / HBKU Platform
- In case a workshop happened to be during the holy month of Ramadan, a different time will be set.
- A certificate of completion will be delivered to participants who have successfully completed the entire training module.
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Upcoming Workshops
Workshop Title | Mode | Leader | Date | Time | Fees |
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Professional Translation - Basic Level | Face-to-Face | Sayed Mohamed | September 10 – 13, 2023 | 4:00 – 7:00 PM | QAR 1,300 |
Medical Translation | Online | Dr. Ashraf Abdel Fattah | September 17 – 25, 2023 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM | QAR 950 |
Business Arabic Writing | Dr. Omaima El-Hardlo | October 15 – 23, 2023 | |||
Trados Studio 2021 - Basic Level | Face-to-Face | Wahba Youssef | October 15 – 18, 2023 | 4:00 – 7:00 PM | QAR 1,300 |
Professional Translation - Advanced Level | Dr. Hisham Ali | October 22 – 25, 2023 | |||
Revision and Quality Assurance | Online | Dr. Ahmed Alaoui | November 5 – 13, 2023 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM | QAR 950 |
Trados Studio 2021 - Advanced Level | Face-to-Face | Wahba Youssef | November 19 – 22, 2023 | 4:00 – 7:00 PM | QAR 1,300 |
Creative Writing & Transcreation | Abdulla Zaki | November 26 – 29, 2023 | |||
Sport Writing and Editing | Nabeel Rashid | December 3 – 6, 2023 | |||
Legal Translation | Online | Dr. Ahmed Alaoui | January 7 – 15, 2024 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM | QAR 950 |
Master the Technique of Note-taking | Face-to-Face | Mazen Alfarhan | January 14 – 17, 2024 | 4:00 – 7:00 PM | QAR 1,300 |
Creative Writing & Transcreation | Abdulla Zaki | January 21 – 24, 2024 | |||
Business Arabic Writing | Online | Dr. Omaima El-Hardlo | February 4 – 12, 2024 | QAR 950 | |
Translating News and Views | Online | Dr. Ashraf Abdel Fattah | February 18 – 26, 2024 | 4:00 – 6:00 PM | QAR 950 |
Sport Writing and Editing | Face-to-Face | Nabeel Rashid | March 3 – 6, 2024 | 4:00 – 7:00 PM | QAR 1,300 |
Simultaneous Interpreting - Beginner Level 1 | Mazen Alfarhan | May 19 – 22, 2024 | QAR 2,600 | ||
Simultaneous Interpreting - Beginner Level 2 | Mazen Alfarhan | May 26 – 29, 2024 | |||
Professional Translation - Basic Level | Sayed Mohamed | June 2 – 5, 2024 | QAR 1,300 | ||
Business and Finance Translation | Dr. Hisham Ali | June 9 – 12, 2024 |