Ghassan ZaqtanHardback, 96 pages9780857425423 his lyrical novel, set in the surroundings of the Palestinian village of Zakariyya, weaves a narrat...
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View full details56-card deck A beautifully designed deck of cards for individuals, friends, family and teams to help them reflect on and practice daily gratitude...
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Aliya VaughanPaperback, 72 pages9781835920145 Sulaiman Learns the Blessing of Giving Giving the Best of What You Have is the fifth book in a se...
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If you put people with common purpose in a room, they become comrades very quickly, especially after trading war stories. With all the reports of closures and downsizings, Singapore's independent bookshops were not having a good year in 2024. We needed to come together, if nothing else, for solidarity and to rebalance our thinking. During the course of the discussion that night, we realised that we needed to cooperate in some way.
Adult Singaporeans need to come home to reading, otherwise they will lose the skills they honed at school. Change is possible. We only have to look to Islamic history to see how the moment of Iqra brought about an efflorescence of learning and literacy to a culture that had not placed that much value on learning and knowledge during the Jahili Period.
