His phone rarely stopped ringing. In Gaza, during the war, Mahmoud became the person friends turned to when they needed help understanding a document, translating a message, or communicating with someone outside the Strip. Then, one day, his phone went silent …

Since I was displaced from Gaza City to Deir al-Balah, I have been living through an extraordinary human experience. I still feel traumatized by the experience of displacement, the fear, and being forced to flee Gaza in order to survive.

We temporarily took shelter in a friend’s house. We sleep in a concrete room where their aunt lives.The room is small, dark, and unpainted. We spread a mat on the floor.

by Respond team translators in GAZA.

March 27, 2025:
Like sheep in a pen, we await our slaughter. We know we are sacrifices, yet we mimic the language of life in Gaza …

On May 11, ahead of Nakba Day, Respond Crisis Translation hosted a gathering in Palo Alto, California, to highlight the work of the Palestinian and Arab interpreters and translators who are working tirelessly to support humanitarian parolees from Gaza and …

Respond Crisis Translation’s Arabic Team worked tirelessly in 2023, supporting hundreds of individuals seeking asylum and refuge, partnering with organizations on dozens of projects, as well as raising awareness around key language justice issues, throughout 2023 …

On Saturday, November 25, a clip posted by BBC News showed a released Palestinian prisoner describing horrific abuses inside an Israeli prison. She said, in Arabic, that Israel held them in the cold without electricity, "sprayed us with pepper spray" and “left us to die." …

At Respond Crisis Translation we witness that language access is central to the struggle against violence everywhere.

Our team is working tirelessly to address language violence and language gaps that are fueling the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. One of many examples is the systemic mistranslation of common Arabic words that…