20 Thousand Leagues on the Intercultural Sea
As the local communities in Spain have become more and more intercultural, municipalities have begun searching for programs to build on the new situation and encourage intercultural harmony. When Fundacion Al Fanar, a Madrid-based NGO for the promotion of Arab knowledge, came to know Sonia Nimr’s “Amazing tours in mysterious countries” (Tamer Institute for Community Education, Palestine, 2013) which was selected as the best novel for teenagers in the Sarya Book Fair (United Arab Emirates). They immediately understood that if they could manage to translate it into Spanish, publish it and design a reading guide for the novel, they would have a powerful tool to work with teenagers. Confident that the promotion of readership is one of the basic pillars of education – formal, informal and non-formal alike, they contacted Jarit (Valencia) and Irenia Jocs de Pau; both members of the Education cluster of the Spanish ALF Network to produce the Educational kit aimed at High school classes.
