"The whole Arab world translates about 330 books annually, one-fifth the number that Greece translates," the report said. In the 1,000 years since the reign of the Caliph Mamoun, it concludes, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
That explains a lot. And my guess would be that most of the ones they do translate are obscure rants against the U.S. and Isreal.