Embargo mornings and four-language chains.
A communiqué that says four different things at 09:01 is not a translation problem. It is a project-design problem.
MAC has delivered EN–AR–EN–POR–EN–FR chains for institutional reports. The only way those versions stay aligned is a single glossary, a single reviser, and a clock that everyone respects.
We freeze terminology on day one — tax, IFFs, cybersecurity, PIDA corridors — so Arabic and Portuguese do not invent parallel institutions. Return translation (back into English) is used when the client needs proof, not when someone is anxious.
Embargo work is scheduled backwards from the press time, not forwards from “when the draft feels ready.” If the English is still moving at midnight, we say which language will miss the morning, instead of quietly shipping an old paragraph.