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Arabs Read a Quarter of a Page a Year

Written byAmira Al Hussaini
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Posted 11 November 2008 12:01 GMT

Space and Time (Ar) links to UN statistics which show that Arabs read a quarter of a page a year on average, while Americans read 11 books.

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