Name: Tahirou Samaila

Recipient Year: 2013

Description: My name is Tahirou Samaila Sidikou. I am an alumnus of the Fulbright Scholarship Program and the founder of Corporalingua Translations, a small freelance translation solo proprietorship. My language pair in Translations is French-English but I speak five languages. I was born in Niger, one of the poorest countries in Africa. In Niger, higher education is a luxury that belongs to a very lucky few. I am grateful to be among those. Three years into college, I was selected by the U.S embassy in Niger to participate in the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship Program in the United States. As a linguist, I believe that communication is the key to any type of conflict resolution. Language has been and will always be the most effective medium through which the symbiosis of cultures and people is possible. That is why translators play an important role in the modern globalized world. 

School Name: NYU

Major: Linguistics of the Islamic World and Translations

Sponsor: ISF