The Great Book Robbery →
Documentary sheds light on large-scale pillaging of books from Palestinian homes in 1948, when Israel was founded…continue at AlJazeera
The Great Book Robbery website.
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Out now. Get it. Read it. Learn about some remarkable women through a political, cultural, social and work journey of Jordan.
Cover illustration by Syrian calligrapher Saleh Nasab.
عايدة النجار - بنات عمان
By Karen Asfour Anzeh al-Azeeza Cleans Up Petra (review at Mich Cafe). Order your Arabic or English copy from Jamalon.
Lost in Translation: The Arab Book in the Language of the Other
July 29, 2010
by Fadia Faqir
The Arab book is a beleaguered creature, undernourished, undervalued and deprived of the very oxygen that makes it grow and prosper: freedom of expression. In the 22 countries of the Arab world with a combined population of 284 million, a ‘best seller’ may have a print run of just 5,000 copies, as a result of censorship, high illiteracy rates – about 60 million adults in the Arab world today cannot read or write – and other constraints. Arabs constitute 5 per cent of the world’s population, yet they produce only 1 per cent of the world’s books, 17 per cent of which are religious books. In 1996,
