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---+ Ducky's Paper for History of the Book
It needs to be 10pp, due 28 Nov.

Assertions:
   * written Arabic is different from spoken Arabic
   * Arab culture discourages most art forms, leaving calligraphy as its highest(?) form
   * literacy is low in Arabic-speaking countries
      * literacy went up in Turkey after switching to modified Latin alphabet
      * caveat: huge educational push at same time
   * number of books published in Arabic is low
   * Koran oral
   * Koran not translated into vernacular
   * British fired all Ottoman printers
   * Lebanese civil war
   * typography is a PITA (look up Thom's paper)
   * Sharia is oral law (Messick?)
   * typography: start and stop lines different
   * type expensive
      * multiple letterforms
      * LOTS of ligatures
      * vowel points
   

   * General paper on Arabic, lots of yummy refs, says MSA lingua franca -- http://www.amideast.org/publications/arabic-language.pdf  (local copy on slug)
   * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&lr=&q=cache:MjN_bR3LUIoJ:www.nclrc.org/nectfl04ls.pdf+written+spoken+arabic+dialect
      * strategies of learning Arabic, says MSA intelligible to most but only educated can speak it
   * text-to-speech paper, lots of yummy info poorly cited http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://www.amideast.org/publications/arabic-language.pdf
   * http://www.springerlink.com/(xnucyy452wc3v1fejtifig45)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,5,5;journal,41,53;linkingpublicationresults,1:104271,1
      * better comprehension with vowelpoints than without -- local arabicStudentsWithVowels.pdf 
   * http://www.springerlink.com/(jmwvvszstby2szuxhv2dwr55)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,6,7;journal,50,53;linkingpublicationresults,1:104271,1
      * more accurate reading with vowelpoints than without -- local arabicAccuracyVowels.pdf
   * reformation in Turkey (alas, wrong date) http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/mepo/2004/00000011/00000001/art00007 NursiGulenReformation.pdf
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