This is your opportunity to get a postgraduate scholarship, with a guaranteed teaching job at Kuwait Univeristy.

Deadline is June 20, so make sure you apply before then.

http://buzfairy.com/2013/05/27/kuwait-university-master-phd-scholarships-%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%ab%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d9%85%d8%a7%d8%ac%d8%b3%d8%aa%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d9%88-%d8%af%d9%83%d8%aa%d9%88%d8%b1%d8%a7%d9%87-%d8%ac%d8%a7%d9%85%d8%b9%d8%a9/

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The Internet Archive is a non-profit digital library offering free universal access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, music, moving images, and nearly three million public-domain books.

Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive’s staff have built the world’s largest online library, offering 10 petabytes in cultural material.

The video below includes a tour of the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/q8allinone/~3/yUMVbgjrMFs/internet-archive-worlds-largest-online-library.html

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The Regional Center for Development of Educational Software (ReDSOFT) have created a pretty amazing iOS App which allows you to download all the books for all grades required by of the Ministry of Education in Kuwait. You just have to tell the App which class you’re in and then you will then have access to all the books that are required by the Ministry for that year. The App is called “كتابي” but if you don’t have an Arabic keyboard setup on your iPhone or iPad then you can search for “nader marafie” in the App store and you’ll find the app or even better here is the direct link to the App Store [Link]

http://248am.com/mark/kuwait/ministry-of-education-books-on-your-iphoneipad/

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In the 60s,70s, and even the 80s, the books that were produced by the Ministry of Education were used all over the Gulf by many GCC countries and a few Arab countries. As with many things they were great in the past, but now its not even a shadow of its former self.

Recently I heard of an incident with the Ministry of Education and a few of the private schools. Any private school has to submit the book it uses for approval by the MoE, which makes sense, if things were perfect. Some books get banned and some get approved, and during one visit to the private school to check on the books one of the teachers asked why a book was banned, she said because it has nudity, and the teacher was confused as it doesn’t. Then the government employee said her colleague watch the movie and it had nudity so the book was banned, but then the teacher replied the book is different. Then the employee replies that the movie has nudity so the book was banned. The concept that the book and the movie were different was not being comprehended.

So now the ministry basis the book approvals through movies viewings, I wonder what they do when there isn’t a movie. And now The Great Gatsby is going to be released soon with Leonardo DiCaprio and you know there will probably be a few frisky scenes, and if its the same process then they will probably ban that book too.

http://www.zdistrict.com/2013/04/30/ministry-of-education-book-clearance/

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أعلنت امازون اليوم عن استحواذها على شبكة Goodreads التي تعتبر أكبر وأشهر شبكة إجتماعية خاصة بالكتب وبتوصيات وآراء المستخدمين ولم تكشف امازون عن أي تفاصيل اخرى بخصوص ثمن هذه الصفقة .

وقد تم تأسيس Goodreads لأول مره سنة في عام 2006 من قبل و اوتيس تشاندلر و تتيح هذه الشبكة للأفراد التسجيل وتسجيل الكتب لإنشاء فهارس المكتبات، وقوائم القراءة كما تسمح للمستخدمين بإنشاء مجموعات خاصة بهم تحتوي على الاقتراحات والمناقشات حيث تجاوز عدد مشتركيها الأن 16 مليون عضو و 30 ألف نادي مخصص للكتب .

كما ساعد Goodreads الآف الكتب للحصول على جماهير غفيرة وفي هذا النطاق ذكر Russ Grandinetti نائب رئيس قطاع جهاز الكيندل فاير بأنهم عازمون على إضافة العديد من التحسينات لإسعاد القراء والكتاب على حد سواء .

المصدر

هذه التدوينة امازون تستحوذ على شبكة Goodreads الخاصة بالكتب ظهرت في البداية في موقع عالم التقنية.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/tech-wd/~3/IunANPdf7oc/

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Kids in private schools have the hardest time dealing with Arabic once they get grow up and get a job since most of them are weak. Not because they didn’t study, but because private schools only have 2-5 Arabic classes a week, everything else is taught in English apart from Islam class and sometimes one or two other classes.

Being good in the Arabic language when young will make it so much easier for when they grow up. Kuwaitna, the organizers behind this campaign will be having an event at the Avenues today where you can pass by to know more.

Where: Avenues Mall

When: 1/1/2013 11:00 a.m

Blog Post Link: 1 Million Books to 240 Schools in Kuwait

http://kuwaitiful.com/campaign-2/1-million-books-to-240-schools-in-kuwait/

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i came across this fantastic book about the history of kuwait – at first sight, i thought it was tintin, it looked so good on my colleague’s table i couldn’t tell it’s actually about kuwait.

the book is prepared by khaled abdullah al massad and illustrated by ali jelveh – it starts with a quick historical background on the region with some nice illustrations on failakh island and the greek era, then it touches base on the pre and post islamic era and the various battles between the tribes – what was also interesting is the story of the 3 branches of the “weal” tribe, al khalifah, al jalahmah and al subah who moved from al najad to the shores of the gulf, settling first in qatar then, kuwait.

the book is very interesting and the illustrations makes it fun to read – you can also bump into president bush who liberated kuwait after the invasion..

the book is sold at 6.5 kd, not sure though you can find it in all bookstores – for more information you can email historyofkuwait

thanks to manal for sharing the book.

http://www.965malls.com/illustrated-history-of-kuwait/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=illustrated-history-of-kuwait

Written by a Kuwaiti Author & is Sold in Amazon and Barnes & Nobles!

Good Luck Hammad!

Learn More about the book & how to purchase it here: LINK

http://www.ilsul6ana.com/2012/11/11/divine-innocence-by-hammed-al-tamimi/

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