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عراقي Iraqi Arabic
Iraqi Arabic for asylum, immigration and criminal proceedings, including Baghdadi and southern varieties.
Iraqi Arabic diverges markedly from both Levantine and Gulf speech in vocabulary and in phonology, and is a frequent site of misassignment on agency bookings.
Note that Kurdish (Sorani or Kurmanji) is a different language, not an Arabic variety. If your client speaks Kurdish, an Arabic interpreter is the wrong instruction — I will tell you so rather than take the booking.
Settings covered
- Home Office asylum interviews and IAC tribunal hearings
- Crown Court trials, plea hearings and sentencing
- PACE Code C police interviews and custody
- Remote client conferences by Teams, Zoom or CVP
Rates
£50 per hour remote, one-hour minimum, all dialects excluding North African (Algerian, Libyan, Moroccan and Tunisian). Remote only — in-person enquiries are referred to an NRPSI-registered colleague. Specialist varieties are not charged at a premium — they are the practice.
Booking an Arabic interpreter? Hear back the same working day.
Send me the dialect, the setting and the date. I reply the same working day with availability and the rate. Remote UK-wide, no agency margin.
Prefer email? Send a ready-made booking brief or write to [email protected]