Book-Swap Aims to Get Young Emiratis Reading

We live in a fast-paced world where information and entertainment are just a click away. You can read newspaper and magazine articles on your mobile phone, and whole books on your Kindle or iPad, and even browse your favorite restaurant menu online.

But father-of-three Faisal Mohammed fears that an obsession with electronic devices is making the younger generation lazy and less likely to read in-depth about subjects that really matter, like science, history and culture.