Our last literacy-related photo in this series is by our contributor in Kazakhstan, Celia, who took this photo in Mongolia. She describes it like this.

Amulet: “A Kazakh girl shows off her necklace, a protective amulet that contains selections from the Qu’ran in Arabic. Many Central Asian languages show a heavy influence from Arabic, and were usually first written down in the Arabic script. Picture taken in Mongolia, 2009.

More literacy related posts:
Reading the Newspaper in India
Marcel, writing and discovering his own heritage
Reading your way around the world

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Marie lives in Auckland, New Zealand but was born in the United States and is a dual-national. She has lived in five countries altogether but sees New Zealand as her real home base. She loves travel, and living in multi-cultural Auckland is the next best thing to being out there.