A new breed of entrepreneurs are creating jobs, opportunities and good news in a region that desperately needs them, writes Yousef Tuqan Tuqan
In 2007, a high school student in Amman named Alaa’ Alsallal received a cease-and-desist letter from the most unlikely of people: JK Rowling.
Frustrated with the delay in the Harry Potter books being translated into Arabic, Alaa gathered over 50 people on a discussion forum, who then set about to translate the latest instalment in the series – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – in time for Eid.
Usually a popular English book takes six months to translate into Arabic. They did it in one month and then gave it away for fr
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