Detailed Gluten Free Restaurant Card - Modern Standard Arabic

This is a Modern Standard Arabic gluten free card written by a celiac and then translated by a professional translator familiar with celiac disease, then proofed by a second translator. I traveled the world with celiac disease for a decade and created these cards in 2014 to help others with the condition travel safely.

While spoken Arabic differs from country to country, a Modern Standard Arabic will communicate effectively in written form throughout the Middle East. This card can be used in Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Western Sahara, Yemen, and more.

🚫🌾 Show this card to restaurants, hotel staff, chefs, or anyone preparing your food to help make sure that your food requirements are communicated politely and accurately — and that they are taken seriously.

Accessing your card

Upon purchase, you will receive an email receipt with a green 'download' button. On your computer, click the download button and download:

📱your digital download (PNG image file) with Arabic only, sized specifically for your smartphone, and/or

🖨 your printable PDF version of the detailed gluten free restaurant card with English on one side and Arabic on the other.

You will also receive a second email from me, sent automatically upon any purchase, with the English translation written out in full.

Why buy a detailed Legal Nomads gluten free translation card?

• Each card is carefully crafted by someone with celiac disease, and then goes through 2 sets of translations to ensure accuracy.

• Unlike shorter, less-detailed cards, each card it lists out local ingredients and dishes that have hidden (and not hidden!) gluten in them. Saying "I can't have gluten" just isn't usually enough to keep celiacs safe — many people preparing your food don't know what ingredients have gluten in them.
• It expressly mentions that we cannot eat food from pans, shared fryers, or cooking surfaces that have had cross-contact with gluten.
• It helps communicate what celiacs can eat via a list of safe ingredients.
• To ensure the card is taken seriously, it adds an apology for the inconvenience, and emphasizes that avoiding gluten is a medical obligation — not a choice.

NOTE: If you have any questions about this card, or are having trouble purchasing or downloading it or accessing the English translation, please send me an email to jodi@legalnomads.com. If you purchase via credit card, your statement charge will read "Gumroad" (the e-commerce platform where I sell these cards).

Looking for more help with your GF travels to Egypt specifically? See my gluten free guide to Egypt post, here. It's free!