Youth Apps

Google Doodle Celebrates - Abdul Rahman Munif's 90th  Birthday. Today's Doodle honors Abdul Rahman Munif, a writer, journalist, and reviewer of culture. Munif was born in Amman, Jordan, on this day in 1933. Munif went to Iraq in 1952 to go to the University of Baghdad and study law. After he left Iraq, he got his bachelor's degree from Cairo University in Egypt. He then went to the University of Belgrade and got his Ph.D. in petroleum economics in 1961. As an economist in Baghdad, he worked in the oil business. Later, he worked for the Oil Ministry in Syria and OPEC. Munif was an editor at the monthly magazine al-Naft wa al-Tanmiyya (Oil and Development) and living in Iraq. He started writing when he was young and thought that "the purpose of literature is to make people more aware." Before writing his first book, he put out a few short stories. While he was working as an editor, his first book was being made. Al Ashjar wa-ightiyal Marzooq (Trees and the Murder of...