WLR participation in International Publishers Association Regional Seminar
Dr. Rana Dajani (Founder of WLR) participated in a panel discussion at the International Publishers Association Regional Seminar, Amman. The seminar, “Read. Empower. Transform: The Role of Reading for the Future of the Arab World”, the panel took place on...
Read moreEvoKE 2019 conference in Split Croatia
Dr. Rana Dajani, (Founder of #WLR) associate professor at the Jepson school for leadership university of Richmond gave the opening plenary speech at the EvoKE 2019 conference in Split Croatia on Sep 27 2019. Dr Dajani started her talk emphasizing...
Read moreLightening talks Elrha R2HC research
Elrha is a global charity that funds solutions to complex humanitarian problems through research and innovation. Elrha held a research forum In London on Sept. 10 and 11, 2019. This research forum is a unique opportunity to share knowledge...
Read moreHeba Al-Omari We Love Reading Ambassador from Irbid -Jordan
Heba el-Omari sat proudly in front of a tree painted on the walls of a community center. Each branch of the tree held up a storybook on a shelf. “It took us a long time to prepare this,” she...
Read moreDr. Rana Dajani (Founder of WLR) is one of the jury members
On 3-5 July 2019, UNESCO Secretariat and the members of the Jury for UNESCO International Literacy Prizes gathered at HQ to choose the best five projects out of the 62 submitted, after a global call for applications. The emphasis this year was...
Read moreAshoka’s Youth Co-Leading EACH Summit
Dr. Rana Dajani participated as One of Keynote speakers in The Youth Co-Leading Everyone a Changemaker (EACH) Summit which marks the official launch of Virtual Young Changemakers Program 2021 Campaign to start the conversation on how we can advance...
Read more2021 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference
It’s the 2021 Society for Affective Science Annual Conference taking place between 13-16 April under the title “Effects of maternal trauma and psychopathology on attentional biases to emotional stimuli among refugee mother-child dyads” you can check the the conference...
Read moreReading-based intervention effects on children who suffered trauma
The research was carried out in collaboration with scientists from Queen Mary University of London, University of Essex, Trinity College Dublin, Hashemite University, and University of Richmond. The research has been published in the Frontiers Website under the title:...
Read moreWLR in Nigeria!
*HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT WLR? I founded Educate2030.org to promote support young people’s academic excellence and reduce the alarming rate of illiteracy in our communities in Nigeria. And one of our programs to do this, is to...
Read moreWe Love Reading Online Training In French
Amal Khaleefa, an associate researcher at the French Institute of the Near East in Amman and the Institute des Convergences Migrations in Paris, volunteered to translate WLR online training into French. Amal was born and grew up in Jordan...
Read moreSedra, an example to follow
Sedra Mously, a volunteer at “We Love Reading” is helping the program to reach more people around the world by translating the program’s news and articles that are published on the website, in addition to translating a research documents...
Read moreWLR end of year letter
Dear world, It is the end of 2020 and the beginning of a new year. It’s a cycle. Its like the leaves on the tree they fall and grow back but the tree is still there always. So in...
Read moreWe Love Reading has conducted research on the impact of We Love Reading on children practices and attitudes towards reading with funding from UNICEF
The research was carried out in collaboration with scientists from Hashemite University, NYUAD, Qatar University. The research has been published in the journal of Research in Reading from Wiley under the title: Reading for Pleasure Among Jordanian Children: A...
Read moreChanging mindsets through reading to create changemakers
“Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.” ― Malala Yousafzai For all aspects of society, the rule of law is fundamental...
Read moreWe Love Reading Online Training in Chinese!
Geyu Chen, an MA Translation& Interpretation Candidate at Middlebury Institute of International Studies, volunteered to translate WLR online training into Chinese. Geyu is currently a first-year graduate student at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, majoring in translation and interpretation. Being...
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