Talking translation with Doctor Rawan Ghaly
Growing up in Beirut, Lebanon, Rawan Ghaly always loved languages. As a child, she was raised speaking Arabic, but with the school system in Lebanon being French, she had to learn a second language at only five-years-old. She was always first in her class, excelling at speaking multiple languages, even learning English for herself in the fourth grade, making herself trilingual by the mere age of 10. When she was only thirteen, she created a hobby of listening to Arabic songs and rendering their lyrics into English and French. She loved the act of translating the words, making the songs sound beautiful in all three languages. It was at that young age where her passion for translation was born. Now, Ghaly is a celebrated translator and doctor of translation studies in Lebanon and abroad. She speaks regularly at conferences about her research, generating a lot of discussion about her vast professional and academic work. She has travelled the world doing what she loves, immersing ...