This book is the second edition of a selective listing of organizations that promote books and reading, administer literacy projects, and encourage the study of books. Intended as a guide to national programs of special interest to the Center for the Book, it was also compiled to be useful to the entire book community. The emphasis is on the…

This book is a 1,775-item bibliography of English-language literature published between 1950 and 1989 on education in the Arab Gulf States and the Arab world as well as general works on the Arab countries as a whole. The first chapter provides an introduction and discussion of major issues in various areas. The literature citations are grouped in…