Please ignore the ignorance of American security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies. I was arrested and held captive for several days, on several occasi

Please ignore the ignorance of American security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies. I was arrested and held captive for several days, on several occasions, for no reason at all, other than carrying tens of Arabic books, on various subjects, in my car. I couldn't convince the post-911 officer that Arabic was a legitimate language, beautiful on its own, with some passionate scholars. I was translating a mathematics text at the time and had no working scientific vocabulary of the field, so I had to buy every text on physics, engineering, chemistry, econometrics and civil engineering I could find. It takes one months to acquire the technical language for a discipline, the Right Thing for a scientific translator is to immerse himself in the field and find all the idioms, metaphors and the cultural signals of the language community. It was impossible for me to convince him that I really was using the texts on Stereochemistry for their topological vocabulary, and not for the chemistry; I told him the real danger was from someone with materials, not theories, and he jumped on me for knowing who the risk was! What icing on the cake was when he found out I was doing this for free, HAHAHA.