About CCTR

The Christian Center for Translation and Research was born out of a simple but profound realization: the Arabic-speaking Christian community — spanning 10 to 15 million believers in Egypt alone — has been systematically underserved by accessible, high-quality theological scholarship in their native language.

For too long, Arabic-speaking scholars, ministers, and believers have had to rely on abridgements, summaries, or incomplete translations of foundational Christian texts. Meanwhile, over 40 seminaries across the MENA region operate with minimal access to comprehensive reference works in Arabic — forcing students to study theology in a foreign language or through fragmented resources.

In 2024, co-founders George Nasser and Tomas Samuel assembled a team of eight expert translators, linguists, and theologians to address this gap head-on. CCTR was founded on three pillars: academic rigor, theological faithfulness, and accessibility for all.

From its inception, CCTR committed to a four-stage peer-review process for every translation, ensuring that works like the Philip Schaff Encyclopedia, Aquinas' Summa Theologica, and Van Til's presuppositional apologetics are rendered with absolute fidelity to the source texts and theological precision in Arabic.

Today, CCTR is poised to make its public debut at the Cairo International Book Fair in January 2026, with an official launch in January 2027. Our mission remains clear: to become the leading global reference for Christian scholarship in Arabic — preserving heritage, empowering the Church, and advancing theological education across the Arab world.