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Article: Arabic Speakers in Demand for Translation Jobs in United States.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- October 8, 2003
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By Shelia M. Poole, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 8--Hanna Ramzan, born in Detroit to Pakistani immigrants and a criminal justice major at Georgia State University, is fluent in Urdu, Hindi, Punjabi --- and she speaks, writes or reads some Arabic and Spanish.
That language and cultural proficiency could turn out to be the 23-year-old's ticket to a federal job in the post 9/11 world.
A severe shortage of interpreters skilled in the languages and cultures of the Middle East and Asia is causing concern within U.S. military, law enforcement and intelligence circles. And the recent arrest of two ...