Qalam Editing brings together 30 years of professional academic, trade, educational, and international publishing experience. We range from managing multi-million-dollar publishing portfolios for international clients across the Gulf, South Asia, and Western university presses, to providing specialist Arabic-language consultancy, translation, copy-editing, and proofreading for academic publishers, self-publishers, researchers, and students.   

Subject expertise: English language, linguistics, literature, politics, history, STM (Scientific, Medical, and Technical) publishing, Western and Islamic philosophy, Arabic literature, Islamic sciences, and Middle Eastern studies

High academic standards (US and UK): Chicago Manual of Style, Oxford Style Manual, Butcher's Copy-editing, APA, AMA, OSCOLA, among others

Arabic transliteration styles: ALA-LC Romanization, IJMES, The Encyclopaedia of Islam, ISO Rules for Transliteration, and a number of Islamic publication house styles worldwide