موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال هي رواية كتبها الطيب صالح ونشرت في البداية في مجلة حوار في أيلول/سبتمبر 1966، ثم نشرت بعد ذلك في كتاب مستقل عن دار العودة في بيروت في نفس العام. في هذه الرواية يزور مصطفى سعيد، وهو طالب عربي، الغرب. مصطفى يصل من الجنوب، من إفريقيا، بعيدًا عن الثقافة الغربية إلى الغرب بصفة طالب
Nathan Price, a Baptist minister, leaves civilized America, going on a missionary mission to the Belgian Congo, bringing with him his family, who carries with them everything they think they will need, but the African land surprises them, turning everything they brought into something worthless, and even their very existence will be full of challenges. Especially with the political events that are ravaging the country that is struggling to gain its independence, and the major powers are interfering in it, assassinating Patrice Lumumba, the country's first elected prime minister.
The novel is alternately narrated by the mother, who loses something irreplaceable there, and her four daughters, each of whom narrates what is happening in her own way, trying to find her own separate path to salvation.
“The Poison Tree Gospel” is an intense journey in the vibrant African land, and a deep exploration of the other, written with a smooth narrative in which Barbara Kingsolver worked to transform the thorny threads of religion, politics, and race into a piece of literature of breathtaking beauty.
This novel was nominated for several literary awards, was translated into more than thirty languages, and sold more than four million copies around the world.
In this book, we will try to address the knowledge society through three main spaces: the Arab, the Gulf, and the Emirati, relying on data and numbers indicating the development of these spaces towards the knowledge society, without claiming comprehensive knowledge of all its aspects, as this matter requires extensive and more specialized studies. However, we seek to confirm an important issue, which is that the shift towards a knowledge society is no longer an intellectual luxury, but rather an urgent need that requires more plans, programmes, institutions, competencies and skills.
In our endeavor, we also show the position of the United Arab Emirates in its pursuit of a knowledge society, through many indicators, which confirm the great effort made by the political leadership towards developing various structures, in order to provide the potential for transformation towards a knowledge society, which, in our opinion, reflects the strategic vision. The state faces the necessities dictated by the processes of economic transformation into a knowledge economy.
