Creative Writing

1990 - Dubai Hyatt Galleria -- 'Al Sayara' (The Car) Magazine Senior Secretary for this magazine. Magazine was distributed in G.C.C. (Gulf) Countries and Australia. Luxury Cars and Sports Cars Market. Example: Lamborghini, Ferrari, Rolls Royce, Mercedes, BMW, Toyota etc. Cars were Test Driven by Middle East Test Drivers, mostly Lebanese, Syrian, Egyptian, UAE, etc. Articles were obviously written in Arabic by these Arabic-speaking nationalities. A Lebanese lady interpreter translated the Arabic Test Drive articles into English. However, the grammar and vocabulary really went for a total toss in translation from one totally diffeent 'sounding' language to another. So, then as a Senior Secretary, I simply felt the responsibility of re-writing the article on my own initiative. The Syrian CEO was very, very appreciative, as he could only speak in Arabic and knew very little English. A Syrian boy on the Olympic Syrian Football team really did not even speak a word of English. However, he had an AMAZING ability to understand ANY language, merely by observing people's faces while they spoke. Some sort of 'intuition' working here. Mother Nature actually communicates with 'sounds' not with 'words.'