Live translator has been around for a while and its quite cool, being able to translate whole pages and see both the original and the translated version side by side.  Unfortunately it is blocked in the UAE by Etisalat (the major ISP) as all translation services can be used as sort of a proxy to access unauthorized web pages.  Leaving the decision to do this alone for now, it meant that a lot of users in the country could not use this great translation service.  Now we have a solution, introducing TBot.

 Simply add "mtbot@hotmail.com" (without the quotes) as a friend on Live / MSN messenger and start communicating with it.

Type "TBot?" and it will give you the menu choices to set your from and to languages.  All of the languages from the Live translator site are available, including Arabic.  You can change languages at any time by going to the "TBot?" menu and selecting the right option.

Try it out and see what you think, especially the arabic.