That professor is a very impressive representative for Jordan.
Have you seen him in videos?
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The one I saw was a woman. I can’t find the link, however!
Well, I found something:
“Indeed, the total number of books translated into Arabic during the 1,000 years since the age of Caliph Al-Ma’moun [a ninth-century Arab ruler who was a patron of cultural interaction between Arab, Persian, and Greek scholars—WPR] to this day is less than those translated in Spain in one year. The report noted that Arab rulers stay in office all their lives and create dynasties that inherit power, and the peoples are unable to institute change.”
http://worldpress.org/Mideast/663.cfm
This is the woman in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima_Khalaf