His professional career in translation began in 2001. He has worked as a translator and consecutive interpreter for not long but fruitful periods of time for local and international bodies: Centre des langues Vivantes, Tunis-Tunisia (2001-2002), the Pan African Postal Union, Arusha-Tanzania (2002), Besix S.A. Belgian Company (2002-2003) and the Tunisian Parliament (2004-2005). His research interests are at the intersection between lexical semantics, corpus translation studies and translation pedagogy. He has taken part in a number of conferences and seminars on translation and linguistics. He is also a conference interpreter in fields which fall within the diplomatic, economic, social and legal domains. Mr. Salhi can be reached at hammouda_s@hotmail.com.