Contact Information
M/C 168
Urbana, IL 61801
Education
M.A. in Translation, Kent State University (2017)
B.A. in Translation, Mustansiriyah University (2010)
Courses Taught
UIUC:
ARAB 201: Elementary Standard Arabic I
ARAB 202: Elementary Standard Arabic II
ARAB 403: Intermediate Standard Arabic I
ARAB 404: Intermediate Standard Arabic II
ARAB 407: Topics in Standard Arabic Language and Literature I
ARAB 408: Topics in Standard Arabic Language and Literature II
ARAB 490: Readings in Advanced Arabic
TRST 201: Intro to Translation Studies
TRST 410: Translation and Interpreting Theory & Practice
Other Academic Institutions:
Elementary Arabic I & Elementary Arabic II
Intermediate Arabic I & Intermediate Arabic II
Advanced Intermediate Arabic I & Advanced Intermediate Arabic II
Advanced Arabic I & Advanced Arabic II
Arabic Conversation for Business and Special Purposes
Practice of Arabic Translation
Multilingual Information Lifecycle
Global Literacy and Cultural Awareness
professional certifications
Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language (TAFL) Teacher Training Certification | Akdem Arabic Training Center
American Translators Association Certification (English > Arabic) | American Translators Association
academic interests
Audiovisual translation, language industry, translation technology, translation process research, translation quality assessment
selected publications
Zou, L., Saeedi, A., & Koby, G. S. (2025). Beyond Automated Metrics: Assessing GPT-4o and Google Translate against Professional Translation Standards. SKASE Journal of Translation and Interpretation, 18(2), 165-87.
Saeedi, A. (2025). Exploring Anime Translation Practices and Reception in the Arab World: A Comparative Analysis of Official Dubbing and Fan Subtitling of Detective Conan. In Minority Languages and Cultures in Audiovisual Translation (pp. 141-157). Routledge.
Zou, L., Saeedi, A., & Carl, M. (2022). Investigating the Impact of Different Pivot Languages on Translation Quality. In Proceedings of the 15th biennial conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2022). Orlando, Florida. (pp. 15-28).