{"id":262146,"date":"2008-05-14T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T15:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2008\/05\/14\/kalima-update\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:32:12","slug":"kalima-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2008\/05\/14\/kalima-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalima Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Ed Nawotka&#8217;s article in today&#8217;s <i>PW Daily<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Last year the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (<span class=\"caps\">ADACH<\/span>) of the United Arab Emirates launched \u201cKalima,\u201d a project to translate books into Arabic; its stated aim was to translate 100 works. Late last month, the ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, upped the ante: His eponymous foundation launched a similar project, albeit one that aims to translate 365 books in its first year \u2013 or, in other words, one per day.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Most of these are business books, but there is a good deal of literature being translated into Arabic, and overall, this is a pretty impressive program\/investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Ed Nawotka&#8217;s article in today&#8217;s PW Daily: Last year the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) of the United Arab Emirates launched \u201cKalima,\u201d a project to translate books into Arabic; its stated aim was to translate 100 works. Late last month, the ruler of Dubai, Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, upped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,9146],"class_list":["post-262146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-kalima"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358166,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262146\/revisions\/358166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}