Comments on: Arabic contribution?

Comment on Arabic contribution? by: zazuge

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:36:39 +0000

yeh thats a real shame for arabs (me included)
we have no excuse especially since there are numerous arabic speaking countries
and a huge cultural heritage.
the problem have 2 sides ,the gov cultural ministries spend money on modern culture and discard old litteraturs there are even old endangered parchement and books that are in some old rural towns waiting to be swept by the next flown or destroyed by the next earthquake and no one cares to preserve them let digitalize
national patrimony .
why you ask?
well because the officials are Illiterate at worse or non-cultured or maybe just corrupt and greedy.
the other side is the resspensibility of the civic society (if ever it exists in the arabe world) witch plagued by tyranny have been in a defeatist state with no Initiative spirit at all (maybe there is still hope).
it’s just a simplistic overview that don’t reflect the complex reality but that’s why there is little arabic contribution (at least compared to number of arabic speaking people in the world)

Comment on Arabic contribution? by: Don Lapre is a Superstar

Thu, 14 Dec 2006 00:54:08 +0000

I think it has more to with the number of people who are interested and have the resources, than anything else. Lot of developing countries do not have their books in free libraries not just Arabs.
Don Lapre is a Superstar
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Comment on Arabic contribution? by: alnokta

Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:12:23 +0000

Hello again

Check the blog now as I have added a temporary link …

http://booksinarabic.blogspot.com

Comment on Arabic contribution? by: Swobodin

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:54:08 +0000

My answer is here

Comment on Arabic contribution? by: alnokta

Thu, 03 Aug 2006 10:21:23 +0000

Thanks

Once the text is completed in UTF-8 format .. We can play with it whatever we want …

The problem I am having now is with blogger .. I cannot find an Arabic RTL template … If you know a template works for blogger please tell me

Comment on Arabic contribution? by: Swobodin

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:33:28 +0000

Congratulations for your new blog! You should allow non-blogger comment meamwhile; well, it's up to you. Aside from plain text UTF-8 files, you can add HTML files too; nvu is an excellent tool to handle it, yet free software. As for PDF, how about ArabTeX? Keep up the good work. Regards,

Comment on Arabic contribution? by: alnokta

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 22:07:17 +0000

Hello

I’m working now on the first book to be published, It will take sometime…

أثر العرب فى الحضارة الأوروبية - عباس محمود العقاد

Here the address in which I will use to publish the books on it…

If you have any ideas .. contact me…

Comment on Arabic contribution? by: Swobodin

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 16:06:48 +0000

Hi alnotka,
Did you start? are there some available for download? May you give some links?
Thanks and best regards

Comment on Arabic contribution? by: alnokta

Sat, 29 Jul 2006 17:20:53 +0000

Hello

It is a very unpleasent fact that there are nobody wants to contribute in presenting books in Arabic for free… although there are a lot of books considered to be in the public domain … i was thinking of making a small project to type the books available for free and publish it in HTML, PDF, TXT … pretty similar to the great Project Gutenberg …

Comment on Arabic contribution? by: Swobodin

Mon, 22 May 2006 11:02:49 +0000

Thanks Lameen for the links, however, it was not really useful.
The first contains only religious books, they are available everywhere, I am looking for literature and poetry.
As for the second, it’s only compatible with Internet Explorer, I only work on GNU/Linux, so I won’t install another OS to open the links
Thanks anyway, and welcome to my space!