"We don't learn much about the history of some of the greatest Arab thinkers that really changed the pathway of the world we see today," says Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of Abu Dhabi's Department of Culture and Tourism.
"Now how do we make sure that our cultural content is also following suit? This is where I see massive opportunities with the culture and creative industries in that we can create this new content for future leaders and communities."
Al Mubarak was speaking Sunday at the International Congress of Arabic Publishing and Creative Industries in Abu Dhabi, which was organized by the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre, the National reports.
The chairman says there's been a "massive investment" in libraries, not just to house history books, but "really community centers to bring these critical minds together."
He says there's also been "a subsection of jobs that have been created from paper conservation and librarians to intellectual researchers and the list goes on."
Egyptian-American economist Mohamed El Erian, who is also president of Queens College in the UK, praised the UAE's investments in artificial intelligence, which he says will "not replace the creative and highly skilled things we do."
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