almotamar.net - The Establishment of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has chosen Hisham Ali Bin Ali, Undersecretary of Yemen's Ministry of Culture as representative of Yemen to membership of its Consultative Council for Knowledge Report for 2008.

Culture Undersecretary told almotamar.net Thursday he would take part in the first meeting of the Consultative Council for Arab Knowledge Report in the area of technique, technology, technical culture and education. He explained that the Arab Knowledge Report comes as similar to Report of Human Development prepared by the United Nations annually.

Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid had declared the foundation at the World Economic Forum held in the Dead Sea area last May and allotted for it Islamic endowment amounting to $10 billion. The sheikh announced that the newly-established foundation, which is the first of its kind in the Arab and Islamic worlds, would work for spreading awareness, knowledge and science among the Arab and Islamic societies and increasing the number of researchers, students and sent universities, higher institutes and colleges from among sons of the Arab and Islamic nations.