Whilst in Skopje my friend Sameh Ragab of the Arabiana Translation Group, a speaker at the ProZ.com regional Conference in Skopje, sang the call to prayer at the Murat Pasha Mosque in Skopje. I’m not a Muslim but as stated in earlier posts I like the call to prayer – and believe that spiritualism or faith can give comfort and […]
Autumn Tour: No sleep till Kalafat!
2 continents, 9 countries, 20 cities, a good number of rivers and unfortunately 9 currencies! Avid readers of this blog (surely there are some? Mother?) may have noticed many of my recent posts were about events I’m attending, presenting, moderating, facilitating or other business-like jargon verbs and noun-verbs. This entry combines (and links to) all […]
ProZ.com Regional Conference Skopje, Macedonia, 2011: Selling Translations® 2 hour seminar for Freelancers
I’m really looking forward to returning to Macedonia, having visited both Skopje and Ohrid for an earlier ProZ.com conference in 2009. I’ll be delivering a short 2 hour Selling Translations® seminar for Freelancers. The ‘Conference for Translators and Interpreters from the Balkans and SEE countries‘ takes place on Saturday the 1st of October 2011, at the Hotel Arka, […]