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Al-Rubaiy, A.; Al-Zubaidy, K. – 1990
In most of the Arab world, the development of a national education system has been a recent process. Currently, one out of every two Arabs can neither read nor write. This paper focuses on how illiteracy has been dealt with in the country of Iraq. A 1947 survey put total illiteracy of those 15 years and older at 89.1%. In the period following the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Arabs, Basic Skills
