(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) You are Polish, born in Bulgaria. Where does your interest in Arab culture come from? In the 1960s, Eastern European countries strengthened their relations with recently independent Arab states, helping to awaken genuine public interest in Arab culture. Very often, specialists, doctors and academic researchers who had been working with Arab countries published books when they came back that told of these far-off places. The translations of books by Nagib Mahfouz, Yousouf Idris, Al Ghitani and Ghadad as-Simman enthralled their readers. In the meantime, interest in Islam was growing. The first Polish-language...
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