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2010-07-08 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Seafarious 2010-07-08 03:50|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Selling books to the Middle East. I liked two things:

Chip Rossetti, an Arabic literature translator who writes about publishing in the Middle East, said a movement is growing to encourage a culture of reading for pleasure, which has mostly been a pastime of the elite. "... in these countries education tends to be more about rote learning, less about free reading."

Much later -
Already, this infusion has transformed some West Bank children into critical thinkers.
A bit of a stretch, but that's the idea. Get their little heads out of the Koran, and their Imam's interpretations thereof, and take a look at the rest of the world.

Posted by Bobby 2010-07-08 06:05|| 2010-07-08 06:05|| Front Page Top

#2 EasyReader editions of Nabakov for the newly-literate.

Posted by Black Bart Shick7973 2010-07-08 06:29|| 2010-07-08 06:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Fear and Loathing in Ramallah.

Posted by ed 2010-07-08 08:50|| 2010-07-08 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Clifford the Big Red Cultural Imperialist Dog.

Posted by tu3031 2010-07-08 10:02|| 2010-07-08 10:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Ummm, it's Nabokov Black Bart with an O.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-07-08 10:03|| 2010-07-08 10:03|| Front Page Top

#6 the skin tone and hair of the Swiss orphan girl in "Heidi" was darkened

WTF?

Everything done today in the US has to have a carefully balanced representation so that quadriplegic lesbian Aborigines feel included, but the Arab world can't deal with a white girl living in Switzerland?

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-07-08 17:01|| 2010-07-08 17:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Hurts their self-esteem?

Posted by lotp 2010-07-08 19:58|| 2010-07-08 19:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Everything done today in the US has to have a carefully balanced representation

The Soviets gave Lenin statues distinctively Asian features in the eastern holdings.

Posted by Pappy 2010-07-08 21:49|| 2010-07-08 21:49|| Front Page Top

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