Riyadh
Translation services for Riyadh
Riyadh is where most of our Saudi work originates — publishing houses, government-adjacent agencies, and companies producing bilingual material to a deadline.
Work from Riyadh tends to arrive in one of two shapes. The first is publishing: a house with an Arabic catalogue that wants an English or Spanish edition, usually with a print deadline already fixed and a book that has already been typeset once in Arabic. The second is corporate: annual reports, training material, and internal policy that has to exist in both languages and read as though it was written in each.
Both benefit from the same thing — a glossary agreed before drafting starts. Saudi organisations tend to have established renderings for their own names, departments, and programme titles, and getting those wrong is more damaging than an awkward sentence. Send us whatever internal glossary exists, in any format, and it binds the whole job.
For narration, Riyadh clients usually want one of two voices: fuṣḥā for anything published or formal, and a Gulf-accented voice for material aimed at a Saudi audience specifically. Both are in the launch catalogue and you can hear them on the voiceover page before committing to anything.
We invoice in GBP or USD from a UK-registered company, which for most Riyadh finance departments is simpler than it sounds — the rates are published, the deposit is 25%, and the balance is invoiced on delivery. If your procurement process needs a purchase-order reference on the invoice, tell us and it goes on.
Questions we get from here
Do you have someone in Riyadh?
No. We are a UK studio and we say so plainly rather than implying a local office. Everything is handled by email and WhatsApp, and the work is delivered as files — which for translation, typesetting, and audio is the whole deliverable anyway.
Can you produce certified translations for use in Saudi Arabia?
We produce certified translations at a published 25% surcharge, but whether a given authority accepts a UK certification depends on the authority. Ask them what they require before commissioning, and we will meet the specification if we can or tell you plainly if we cannot.
Can you match a book we already published in Arabic?
Yes. Send a PDF of the Arabic edition and we build the template from it, so the translated edition sits alongside it rather than looking like a different series.
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