Arab Human Development Report 2003: Building a Knowledge Society

The Report, written by a group of distinguished Arab scholars and opinion leaders, provides detailed analyses of the current state of education, scientificresearch, the media, the publishing industry, culture encompassing religion, intellectual heritage and the Arabiclanguage, and other building blocks of a “knowledge society” in the Arab world. The Report is a close study of one ofthe three cardinal challenges facing the region: its growing knowledge gap.