Part of my childhood was spent in Baghdad, Iraq, during the rule Saddam Hussein. At that time, regime offered free and universal education healthcare. Literacy rates country surpassed much Arabic-speaking world and, indeed, Global South. As celebrated Egyptian intellectual, Taha Hussein, famously put it: “Cairo writes; Beirut prints; Baghdad reads.” Booksellers were everywhere Baghdad. Its peop...

References 1. Bhrawy AH, Taha TM, Alzahrani EO, Baleanu D, Alzahrani AA (2015) New Operational Matrices for Solving Fractional Differential Equations on the Half-Line. PLoS ONE 10(5): e0126620. doi: 10.1371/ journal.pone.0126620 PMID: 25996369 2. Bhrawy AH, Taha TM, Alzahrani EO, Baleanu D, Alzahrani AA (2015) Correction: New Operational Matrices for Solving Fractional Differential Equations on...

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