The Al Manarah Association for Arab Persons with Disabilities in Israel offers the world’s only online library of audio books in Arabic and was recently honoured by the UAE. Abbass Abbass has a congenital and degenerative eye condition which will eventually rob him of the little that remains of his sight. Yet it would be […]
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Our Library Project records audio books, produces texts in braille, and provides studios for the production of disability podcasts.
As a part of increasing AlManarah’s impact and learning from the experience of other like-minded organizations throughout Europe, AlManarah applied and was admitted in 2018 as a member of the European Network on Independent Living. The European Network on Independent Living (ENIL) is a Europe-wide association of people with disabilities. It provides organizations both within
As a part of developing its international project, AlManarah Digital Library, since 2015 AlManarah has begun building bridges with other organizations throughout the Arab World. One of our leading networks is with the Jordanian organization We Love Reading, in which we received a collection of recorded children’s stories which were published through our digital library.
The Accessibility Center is a project under which AlManarah advises and gives lectures and workshops to various entities, with the aim of increasing accessibility on a local level via enactment of the various accessibility regulations and recommendations. Organizations we’ve begun by targeting include public transport companies and local authorities. The Accessibility Center at AlManarah has carried
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