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arabia to get new books
Saudi Arabiaâs Education Ministry has recalled one million notebooks from schools around the kingdom because they contain mistakes including references to the "Persian Gulf," al-Watan newspaper said Wednesday. Arab states call it the "Arabian Gulf." just who gulf is it anyway. A map in the notebooks also inaccurately represented Saudi Arabiaâs southern border with Yemen, a source of decades of dispute between the two countries which signed a border treaty in 2000, the paper said. It said a senior ministry official had told the agency which produced the books to halt distribution, withdraw those already handed out and explain how it would rectify the errors. Posted by: muck4doo 2004-03-03 |
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