Challenges facing Arab interpreters at the UN: A secondary data analysis in the light of interpretation between Arabic and English
Ahmad Yaseen Issa Al Juboori,
Dr. T Sharon Raju
Abstract:This paper investigates the challenges that the interpreters from the Arab world encounter in interpretation from and to Arabic in the United Nations. In this study, the multiple tasks of UN interpreters are identified. These challenges are probed according to the factors that complicate the tasks for the interpreters. Some of these factors are general and can be applied to all languages such as the difficulties of giving the proper simultaneous translation in the target language in time. That is to say, choos… Show more
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