With the Year of Reading already underway, Dubai has announced a plethora of plans designed to get people more interested in Arabic books and literature.
A new Dh1 billion library is set to open in Jaddaf next year, but in the meantime, the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation has already launched the first phase of the Dubai Digital Library.
The DDL aims to preserve national heritage, culture and identity, while building bridges of communication and understanding between cultures.
Jamal bin Huwaireb, the managing director of the foundation, says the first phase involves digitizing more than 1,600 books from a wide range of genres, including language, medicine, pharmacy, geography history, religion, sociology, biographies and more.
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