How ironic that in ancient times, Alexandria was home for many Greek-speaking Jews and a library that made it a center for learning.
Times have changed.
Today, the Arab world is intellectually repressed. From the Arab Human Development Report 2003 (UNDP):
Translated books—critical for the acquisition and transfer of knowledge—are
much rarer in the Arab-speaking world than in regions with comparable levels
of literacy and economic development. No more than 10,000 books were
translated into Arabic over the entire past millennium, equivalent to the number
translated into Spanish each year.
So, among the small collection of translated books available to Arabic readers is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the infamous literary fraud. Truly sad.
Alan G. Archer,
author of There's Something About Angstrom