<div dir="ltr">Assuming your premise is true, that few books are translated into Arabic, it seems that at best you can conclude that Arabs don't read in Arabic. Consider: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/world/middleeast/11iht-educlede11.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/world/middleeast/11iht-educlede11.html?_r=0</a><div hspace="streak-pt-mark" style="max-height:1px">
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</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>Dr. Mark Walker<br>Richard L. Hedden Chair of Advanced Philosophical Studies<br>Department of Philosophy<br>New Mexico State University<br>P.O. Box 30001, MSC 3B<br>Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 8:50 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>On Jul 17, 2014, at 6:12 AM, Mirco Romanato wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">> Why Don’t Arabs Read?<br>

</blockquote><br>One reason may be that the number of books translated into Arabic since the death of Caliph Al-Ma’moun in 833 AD is less than the number of books translated into Spanish just last year. If you believe that all the world's wisdom can be found in just one book why read any other?<br>

<br></div>  John K Clark<br></div>
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