The Hidden Contributors: Translators & Women
For a long, long time, throughout history, there have been very little women who were acknowledged as contributors to society in general, and the advancement of knowledge – both scientific, secular knowledge, and religious, spiritual knowledge. Today, one of the most famous examples of women who received little acknowledgement to their contributions to the advancement…
Compassion: February 2018 Goals
We’re already halfway through Q1, and I’m really glad I’m still sticking around with this blog posting thing! It has been a bit hard, though, since I didn’t exactly follow my January plans as I had wanted to. I did manage to implement a simple marketing plan, put Aurora Hikma on the map as a…
The Procrastinator’s Foolproof Guide to Social Media Consistency
I have a procrastination problem. The only projects I’ve finished are all client work. And maybe, maybe, we could consider this website as a finished project, in terms of designing it and putting up the main pages. Everything else? They’re all works-in-progress. But today I don’t want to talk about WIPs. I want to talk…
New Beginnings: January 2018 Goals
The last time I posted one of these posts, I ended up writing 1 blog post and disappearing for months while life threw all kinds of lemons at me. I’m pleased to say that finally, finally, most of the lemons have been squeezed and turned into lemonade. But that’s not what this post is about. The new…
Translating Science Fiction into Arabic
Very little people know this about me – because I haven’t shouted off rooftops about it – but last year, I completed my very first translation of a novel, from English into Arabic. Not only was I new to translating fiction, but the book that I translated was also the triple-award-winning science fiction novel, Ancillary…
April Goals + Plans
April is here, and it’s the beginning of the second quarter of 2017. I’ve been putting off blogging for quite a while, because I wanted everything to be perfect. Yes, I know quite well that perfectionism is a terrible thing, and I’m working on that, that’s why today I’m writing this blog post. Long ago,…
What is an Author Impact Radius + How to Expand Yours
What is an Author Impact Radius? What’s a radius? It’s the measurement for a circle’s width. In the same way, an impact radius is the measurement of how wide the impact is. When applied to authors, what I mean by an impact radius is everything that an author or author’s books impacts. The lives you…
The Ultimate Foreign Language Hashtag Trick
We all know that Google Translate is quite highly inaccurate when it comes to translating between English and non-European languages. (I’ve caught it saying weird things in the English <> French pairs as well, but nothing as crazy as English <> Arabic. I’m sure this applies to other languages like Chinese, Japanese, and Korean as…
5 Steps to Getting Started with Arabic Social Media
This post is part of the #ThursdayFiver series. Social media is probably one of the most important ways for businesses to communicate with clients and with each other, and Arabic social media is quickly becoming the most inexpensive way for businesses to reach Arabs today. In this inaugural #ThursdayFiver, we offer 5 quick steps…
Take Off
About a year ago, Aurora Hikma was barely a seedling of an idea in our minds. It didn’t even have a name then. Day in, day out, we brainstormed and envisioned how to grow that seedling. Fast forward to about 3 months ago, when we came to the realization that waiting for ideal conditions to grow…
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