Our House - The Virginia House

About

The Virginia House is an Alexandrian woman-owned editing house in Brooklyn. Inspired by Virginia Woolf, Yara Aly founded it in 2018.

Services

The Virginia House offers proofreading and translation services. We love working with authors, filmmakers, and academics. Contact us!

Proofreading

Book Editing • 21st February 2019

A Crochet Course for the Crooked

Published by Kotobna in 2019.

Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels

Editing • 10th May 2018

CVs/Portfolios

Proofreading CVs and portfolios.

Editing • 5th May 2018

BA Thesis: Memory/This Is My Proof

Rephrasing and proofreading part of Anan Raafat's thesis.

Editing • 15th June 2017

Literary Fiction and Creative Non-fiction, Dissertations and Theses, Journal Articles, and Scripts

Want to polish your text? Look no further.

Literary and Film Translation

Translation • 10th May 2019

Literary Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, and Journal Articles in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Arabic to English translation.

Still credit: Alina Cyranek from "SKY".

"منام" • 17th July 2018

Slumber - منام

We translated Dina El-Wedidi's album “Slumber”.

Subtitles • 18th April 2018

Subtitling Films/Clips/Rough Cuts/First Cuts

Translating subtitles from Colloquial Egyptian Arabic to English for independent filmmakers.