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Cairo — Economist Riham Shendy started collecting children's books when she was expecting her twins. An Egyptian married to a German and living in New York, she was determined to teach her children ...

Arabic language authors don't get many opportunities in the e-book world, whether it's due to a basic lack of support for the language (which reads right-to-left, is written in cursive and includes ...

Amazon has just announced Kindle customers around the globe can now enjoy reading from a growing selection of more than 12,000 Arabic language Kindle books on Kindle devices and the free Kindle app ...

Reading an Arabic newspaper, a book, or academic prose fluently, whether digital or in print, remains challenging for many ...

As chairman of the Arabic Language Centre in Abu Dhabi (ALC) and secretary-general of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award (SZBA), I am not alone in believing that the diversity and quality of Arabic ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN) — Amazon announced today that Kindle customers around the globe can now enjoy reading from a growing selection of more than 12,000 Arabic language Kindle books ...

Amazon has announced that it is launching Arabic language books across the Kindle ecosystem. The e-tailer has already compiled a selection of around 12,000 Arabic books which includes titles such as ...

Marrian Zhou is a Beijing-born Californian living in New York City. She joined CNET as a staff reporter upon graduation from Columbia Journalism School. When Marrian is not reporting, she is probably ...