Ideas Beyond Borders is a non-profit group dedicated to translating and distributing secular books to the Arab world. The organization also has translated thousands of Wikipedia pages from English into Arabic.
Authoritarian governments and extremist recruiters can control people in idea vacuums without alternative view points. How do we know a vacuum exists?
Only 0.6% of content on the internet is available in Arabic, but Arabic is the 4th most common language among internet users.
There are more books translated into Spanish in a single year than into Arabic in the last 1,000 years. Arab publishing houses and
press are controlled by figures with a vested interested in quashing sentiments that threaten their power, meaning content that IS
available is frequently a single narrative with a narrowly targeted outcome.