National Center for Translation

About the organization

The National Center for Translation is a not-for-profit cultural foundation established in 2006 thanks to the efforts of Prof. Dr. Jaber Asfour as an extension of the National Translation Project, which started its activity in 1996 as a committee of the Supreme Council of Culture. And based on Republican Decision No. (381) of 2006 as a cultural body supervised by a 18-member Board of Trustees headed by the Minister of Culture, that held a meeting every two years to assess the center’s performance and the effectiveness of its cultural role. The center works on translating, transferring and publishing books from its original language to the Arabic language, which means building bridges of cooperation and understanding between peoples and based on the positive role that translation plays in developing culture and opening up to world cultures. During its working years, the National Center for Translation issued more than 3,000 titles translated from 35 international languages. The center receives translation suggestions from a variety of sources such as translators, senior thinkers and those concerned with cultural affairs, foreign publishing companies and cultural centers, and they are classified according to the field of study and specialized committees are formed to choose the first books with translation.