Jamil ElabedJamil Elabed is a Syrian-British Translator who worked as a broadcast journalist in the BBC World Service in 1994, and in the spring of 1998 published the first edition of his translation of Gibran's The Prophet. He won the European Union CommissionsCreative Translation Award followed by the British University of East Anglia's Translation Residency Grant. He has been a full member of the Institute of Translation and Interpreting [ITI] since 2000. Jamil taught translation and interpreting at Leeds University while freelancing as a professional conference interpreter. Read More Read Less