MEI is honored to host Ali bin Tamin, CEO of Kalima, a non-profit initiative founded by the Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), for a morning reception in the MEI Garden.
Kalima, which means “word” in Arabic, funds the translation, publication, and distribution of high-quality works of classic and contemporary writing from other languages into Arabic. The initiative brings together authors, translators, publishers and distributors.