Arabic readers want poetry and cookbooks.

Along with the New Year will come a raft of new laws for 2014 and perhaps one of the most interesting is the one that calls for greater minority language representation at Sweden's libraries.

 

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An Arabic auther tells stories in mother tongue to 40 children in the school-library

This is a feature from the local news before the International Children’s Book Week. During the week, authors from a number of countries will visit the schools of Västerås and meet children with a mother tongue other than Swedish. More than 40 children met in the gym hall of Trollbacksskolan yesterday to listen to stories in Arabic.

http://www.tv4.se/nyheterna/lokala-nyheter/sagor-på-arabiska-2485240