Shlomit Cnaan (Aviram)
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E-mail: shlomitranslation@gmail.com
Selected Projects and Clients 1997-2020
Firms and organizations:
Articles, reports and books
Givat Haviva: Partnership Between Jewish and Arab Communities (full book; Hebrew to English)
Frontiers for Young Minds: scientific articles for 8-15 year olds (English to Hebrew);
Haifa Technion: promotional literature and biographies (Hebrew to English);
The Society for Excellence in Education / Israel Arts and Sciences Academy: academic and promotional publications (Hebrew to English);
Center for Alternative Information: articles on Israeli and Palestinian society and politics (English to Hebrew);
World Jewish Agency (Sokhnut): historical and philosophical texts (Hebrew to English and English to Hebrew);
Avnei Rosha Institute: essays and articles on education and leadership (English to Hebrew);
Shalom Hartman Institute: press releases
Technical texts:
European Union SySTEM 2020 Project: questionnaires, forms and booklets for participants (English to Hebrew);
Targumbit: industrial insurance assessment documents (Hebrew to English);
Mertens Hoffman Management Consultants: proposal for construction of computerized system for safer transport (English to Hebrew);
Lustig Engineers: proposal for construction of sports complex in Jerusalem’s YMCA compound (Hebrew to English).
Subtitles:
Eko digital media: subtitles for interactive video series (English to Hebrew);
Orion Studios: film subtitles (English to Hebrew);
Ma’aleh student films: Halakeh, Come Back Shulamit and others (Hebrew to English);
Keshet: Entertainment News (English to Hebrew).
Fiction and non-fiction books (English to Hebrew):
Koren Publishers
Dreams Never Dreamed (Kalman Samuels)
Hakursa/Modan Publishers
The Gift of Anger (Arun Gandhi)
Yediot Books
TED books:
Follow Your Gut (Rob Knight)
When Strangers Meet (Kio Stark)
How We’ll Live on Mars (Stephen L. Petranek)
The Laws of Medicine (Siddhartha Mukherjee)
Bavel Publishers
The Hero With A Thousand Faces (Joseph Campbell)
The 4-Hour Body (Tim Ferriss)
Kinneret-Zmora [Bitan-Dvir] Publishers
Mirage (Bandula Chandraratna)
Eastern Medicine (Jacqueline Young)
Juno and Juliet (Julian Gough)
The Other Side of the Dale (Jervis Phinn)
After You’d Gone (Maggie O’Farrell)
This Beautiful Life (Katie Marsh)
Love Letters from Montmartre (Nicolas Barreau)
Keter Publishers
The Orientalist (Tom Reiss)
The Breaking of Nations (Robert Cooper)
Universe on a T-Shirt – The Quest for the Theory of Everything (Dan Falk)
Afterwards (Rachel Seiffert)
Tainted Blood (Arnaldur Indriđason)
The Dragon Scroll (I. J. Parker)
Individual clients (Hebrew to English)
Novels and stories:
Gila Belfair – The Connecting Tissue of our Relationships, a novel and guidebook;
Igal Sarna – My Mother’s Death, an essay;
Amir Porat – The Souls of Toys, a novella;
Academic publications:
Adina Mishal – doctoral thesis: Calotropis procera reproduction mechanism;
Iris Lerman – Truth and Fiction in the (He)art of Therapy, a psychoanalysis case study;
Dr. Ehud Eran – The Yom Kippur Assessment Failure (for Political Science Quarterly); Unmanned Vehicles in the Marine Environment;
Tomer Hillel – doctoral thesis in electrochemistry: results and conclusions.
Other
Orit Azaz –interviews and articles on sculptor Nehemia Azaz and colleagues.
Sally Tadmor – Shopping: how to buy a new state of mind
Numerous other thesis and research proposals (life sciences and social sciences), articles, reports, short stories, lecture texts, websites, documentary film proposals, subtitles and promotional texts.
Additional languages: French, Afrikaans (intermediate), Arabic (basic)
Previous Places of Employment
Mertens Hoffman Management Consultants, Tel Aviv
Collection and processing of data as basis of new regional plan for Jerusalem area
1996 Eisenberg Sherman Architects and Planners, Tel Aviv
Collection of data for town and regional plans
1995 Rodenburg Guest House, Cape Town
Managing and marketing guesthouse, handling business correspondence
1995-1994 DSI and S. van Zyl Market Surveys, Cape Town
Carrying out market surveys, identifying target populations, verifying information
1993 Kruger & Louw Architects and Planners, Cape Town
Assistance with proposals for urban renewal and landscape design projects
1992-1991 Kantey & Templer Civil Engineers, Cape Town
Assistance with production of planning reports
Education
National Diploma in Town and Regional Planning
Cape Technikon
Cape Town, South Africa, 1994
High School: Camps Bay High School, Cape Town, South Africa
Elementary Education: Weizmann School and Middle School, Nahariya, Israel
Military Service
Tel Hashomer Hospital’s Isotope Clinic: managing reception office, guiding patients through procedures and facilitating the smooth running of the clinic.
Computer Skills
Extensive experience with Word and other Microsoft Office programs
Some experience with various Macintosh programs
Excellent online research skills
Further details, translation samples and references available on request.