Voice

My voiceover career started as a voice over artist for companies subcontracted by Disney to dub their existing animated movies and series into Arabic for the Middle East Disney Channel. During that period I worked on several high profile series like ‘Ducktales‘ as the Arabic voice of Launchpad McQuack in the full  100 + episode run of the series. I was also hired to be the voice on several Disney movies like ‘The Little Mermaid‘.

As a result of his dubbing work Mahmoud was later hired by Disney Middle East as a channel announcer for Disney Singapore  in 1997. Later on I immigrated to Canada where I took voice and presenting courses at the Broadcasting Institute in Toronto.

My current portfolio of work includes narrations for over 40 medical conference videos for companies like GlaxoSmithKline, Astrazeneca, Novartis and Bayer.

I have also done radio ads for the Natural Gas Vehicles company in Egypt and the voice over for instructional videos for Johnson and Johnson’s Oral B.

In the later half of 2008 I was contacted by the Edcomm Group to record their Introduction to Islamic Banking eLearning Module. Since then I’ve done several Islamic Banking related courses for them. The Latest of which is an Islamic Banking overview of Pakistan.

Since I work primarily through the internet I have agents representing me in numerous countries. Through these agents I have been able to do work on the Promotional Travel videos for the City of Liguria in Italy, and Learning Danish as a Second Language for the Ministry of Education in Denmark.

Summary of work:
Dubbing 2 movies into Colloquial Egyptian Arabic.
Dubbing 120+ episodes of Ducktales and Darkwing Duck into Arabic.

Narrating 40+ Medical Conference Videos.
Promotional videos for Oil Companies in Brazil and in Canada.
Numerous Business Documentaries for companies all around the globe.

Television commercials for Bridgestone.
Television commercials for National Georgraphic.

Promotional videos for Google’s Chrome Browser.

Definition of Terms

Classical Arabic

This form of Arabic is the most ancient form. It has been kept in its original form by the Holy Book of Muslims - The Quran. Classical Arabic can be understood by almost all Arabs since it is the language that is used for Religious studies as well as most other scholastic subjects.

Classical Arabic does not have a dialect or accent. It is Arabic in its purest form.

Modern Standard Arabic

A derivative of Classical Arabic. Modern Standard is an amalgamation of the classical form and the new terminology that has cropped up because of the Global village mentality that has introduced foreign words and terms into the Arab lexicon. MSA is what is usually used in official reports and on the news.

Colloquial Arabic

This form of Arabic is what is used in everyday life between people on the street. There are probably thousands of different dialects in Colloquial Arabic from the Saudi Arabian which has a few culturally specific words, to North African Arabic from the Maghreb region which is only understood in that part of the world. In fact people from that area will probably have to resort to speaking classical or MSA to understand Arabs from other parts of the Arab world.

Middle Eastern Accent

This is English spoken with a Middle Eastern accent. Obviously there are a huge number of Middle Eastern dialects which can influence the way English can be pronounced. To make life simple I generally offer 3 kinds of Middle Eastern Accents to clients that are interested in that kind of thing. The generic Middle Eastern Accent, the Egyptian Accent and the Palestinian Accent.

Bilingual

Arabic is not an easy language and there are certain phonetic sounds that cannot be reproduced by an foreign language speaker because they are not trained to use them from the moment they can speak. I on the other hand am fluent in both English and Arabic and so doing voiceovers in either language or in both is not an issue for me. I can record a fully English script that has the occasional Arabic word much like my eLearning modules with Edcomm. Or an Arabic text that contains English words... Like my work with Google.