DUBAI // Visitors to Yemen's public libraries will soon be enjoying books donated by the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Foundation.
Books covering a wide range of topics, including management, history, heritage and success stories, will be distributed in Yemen.
The foundation has partnered with Galleria Saraya, a small and medium-sized enterprise in the UAE, in this initiative.
It follows the directives of the UAE Government to support reading and knowledge locally, regionally and globally, said Jamal bin Huwaireb, the foundation’s managing director.
Aisha Al Jasmi, Galleria Saraya’s general manager, said: “As a national institution and as part of our responsibility to society, we are keen to contribute and support humanitarian campaigns that work to spread culture.”
The initiative is part of the Reading Nation campaign, launched by Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, at the start of Ramadan. More than Dh80 million in donations were raised to provide more than 8.2 million books underprivileged children.
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From: Upper Egypt
Age: 78
Family: a daughter in Egypt; a son in Dubai and his wife, Nabila
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was born and raised in Tehran and studied English literature before working as a translator in the relief effort for the Japanese International Co-operation Agency in 2003.+
She moved to the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies before moving to the World Health Organisation as a communications officer.
She came to the UK in 2007 after securing a scholarship at London Metropolitan University to study a master's in communication management and met her future husband through mutual friends a month later.
The couple were married in August 2009 in Winchester and their daughter was born in June 2014.
She was held in her native country a year later.+