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Publisher of ‘offensive’ textbook apologises
By Mohsen Rashid

20 March 2006
DUBAI — Juma Al Salami, Assistant Under-Secretary of the Private Education Department affiliated to the Ministry of Education (MoE), met yesterday the regional manager of Pearson Education Company who came from the publisher's main office in London to deliver a written apology for offence caused to Arabs, Muslims and Islam by material included in a book called ‘The cultures of the world’.

This book was circulated and distributed to a number of  private schools in the country. The regional manager was accompanied by the director-general and representative of the company in the UAE. Al Salami accepted his apology.

He assured them that he would issue a new circular to all private schools cancelling the earlier memo which advised them not to deal with the Pearson Education Company. He pointed out that the company was keen to forge a cordial relationship with the MoE, and the unconditional apology was a testimony of that desire.

 

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