People of Dubai – Do you Read Enough?
#IStandWithAhmed
Appreciating the importance of education in a country’s development is a trait that’s respected the world over.
This week we saw Barack Obama support the 14 year old boy who made a clock at home and was arrested when he brought it to school. Inspiring children to learn and acquire new skills should always be encouraged.
Arab Reading Challenge
We were proud to see that the rulers of Dubai have initiated a new challenge this week, called the ‘Arab Reading Challenge’ designed to incentivise more reading. The competition, funded by $3m will see with more than a million students committing to read 50 million extracurricular books during an academic year. A frightening statistic is that the average reading time by an Arab child per annum is six minutes, versus 12,000 minutes in the west (source: Arab Thought Foundation). This is the first of many initiatives to improve reading in the UAE, as Sheikh Mohammed says: ‘Reading opens minds, magnifies hunger for knowledge, and instills the values of openness and moderation that define great civilizations.”
Zuckerberg’s Year Of Books
Can You Catch Up With Zucks’ Reading List
At the start of the year, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg declared his annual challenge to read more, committing to a new book a week. His latest book is ‘Why Nations Fail’ Daron Acemoğluand James A. Robinson.
You can follow the challenge here, you might have some hibernating to do if you want to keep up with him!
What Are You Reading Next?
We did a whip round the office and asked for book recommendations.
Rather than the usual, ‘best book you’d read recently’, or what book are you
currently reading, we asked what book would you like to read next. So here are
four random book titles to encourage you to pick up a book or kindle this
weekend or over the long Eid brea
The Entrepreneur State
Where’s My F*cking Latte
Laughing All the Way to the Mosque
A Curious Mind
