Since the
official launch of the Aladdin Project under the patronage of UNESCO on March
27, 2009, the multilingual Web site (www.projetaladin.org) and the online library (www.aladdinlibrary.org) have been receiving a steadily rising number of
visitors, while over 1,000 intellectuals, public figures and civil society
actors from 50 countries - half of them from the Muslim world - have declared
their support for the Aladdin Project.
Visits to the site have tripled in the past three months, reaching about ten thousand a month, according to the Web information company Alexia; a significant rise in the absence of any online advertising campaign. Visitors include Internet users in every country in the Muslim world, with the largest number of visits coming from Turkey, Iran, Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Indonesia. Among Western nations, the United States, France, Britain, Canada, Germany and Israel have the largest share of visitors. In the past three months, more than 3,000 electronic copies of the four books we have translated into Arabic and Persian - including Anne Frank's Diary and Primo Levi's If This Is a Man, have been downloaded by Internet users, with visitors from Iran, Egypt, Morocco and Saudi Arabia having the largest share.
We thank the hundreds of people from around the world who have posted messages on our Web sites for their support and their interest in the Aladdin Project.