In Al-Ahram Weekly Ameera Fouad reports on the recently-held -- at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina -- second conference of the Arab Publishers Association, in God save the book.
A lot to cover, and so not everything is fully covered (essentially nothing on that: "seventh and the last session, 'Translation Problems and the Publishing Industry', focused on translation problems and the future of translation in the Arab world", which I'd certainly love to hear more about), but some odds and ends of interest -- including the observation that:
A lot to cover, and so not everything is fully covered (essentially nothing on that: "seventh and the last session, 'Translation Problems and the Publishing Industry', focused on translation problems and the future of translation in the Arab world", which I'd certainly love to hear more about), but some odds and ends of interest -- including the observation that:
"Nowadays," he said, "we have some 35 thousand television channels that broadcast knowledge in all fields. Nevertheless, books in the Arab world do not enjoy any media attention or responsiveness as do sports and the arts." Regarding the internet and its role in spreading culture, Mihoubi said, "Not all that is written on web sites is 100 percent trustworthy."Of course, he doesn't mention what untrustworthy websites he's been visiting .....