3 blog reactions to http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/brian_whitaker/2007/11/found_in_translation.html

- do not read enough. The UN said so. We know so. Unfortunately, “more books are translated into Spanish a year than have been translated into Arabic in a millennium” translates, for some, into Arabs don’t read. At all. In any language. As this Cif comment shows: “The real problem about literacy in the Arab world (at least in the Gulf, I have heard it is much better in the rest of the region) is not that books are unavailable, it is that people simply do not read. At all. In any language.

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