Google Translate is a powerful tool which can be used to render entire websites - not just single pages of text - into Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Korean, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese or Greek.

Reading Phillipe Duhamel's most recent Intertactica blog post, I was particularly interested in the following case example:

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Human Rights Watch recently released this article about the detention of Syrian writers and activists who express critical opinions and work to disseminate information online:

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/10/08/syria17024.htm