Public Policy
May 23rd, 2013 | by
MuslimScienceCommentary The Arab world cannot afford to ignore curiousity-driven basic research in favour of applied research, if the different states hope to produce an enlightened science culture at home. Nidhal Guessoum When the British physicist J. J. Thomson won the Nobel Prize in 1906...
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May 18th, 2012 | by
MuslimScienceBy:Athar Osama Published on SciDev.Net on 18 May 2012 Building a knowledge society in the Islamic World requires structural change — not fads and symbolism, argues Athar Osama. Last month, a special report by The Economist magazine announced the dawn of the third industrial...
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March 20th, 2012 | by
MuslimScienceBy Zakri Abdul Hamid Islamic nations should go all out to create conditions that foster academic pursuit in science and technology There was a time when budding Western scholars travelled long distances to the then epicentre of science and technology — the Islamic world that...
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January 26th, 2012 | by
MuslimScienceBy: Hazem Badr Published on SciDev.Net on 18 January 2012 There has been a surge in public interest in science as the route to recovery Scientists have been reflecting on the astonishing gains that the Egyptian revolution has delivered them, as the first anniversary...
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January 26th, 2012 | by
MuslimScienceBy: Athar Osama Published on SciDev.Net on 12 January 2012 Some Muslim countries’ powerful financial incentives to make quick progress in research could backfire, cautions Athar Osama. Over a decade ago, several governments in the Islamic world woke up from decades of...
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December 19th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy: Athar Osama Published on SciDev.Net on 15 December 2011 Arab Spring revolutionaries turning to governance must adopt knowledge and innovation as barometers for progress, says Athar Osama. As revolutions swept countries and shook governments across the Middle East and North...
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December 9th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy: Tan Sri Omar Abdul Rahman The government’s science and technology (S&T) apparatus is now in active consultations to formulate the third national S&T policy (NSTP3) and I have been involved in some and benefitted from them. In an earlier article (NST 9/7/11), I had...
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November 11th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy: Athar Osama Published on SciDev.Net on 10 November 2011 The Islamic World Academy of Sciences has been challenged to build bridges. The hardest may be between disciplines, says Athar Osama. The Islamic World Academy of Sciences (IAS) was established in 1986 as the Academy...
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November 6th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy Murtaza Haider, Published at Dawn.Com on November 2, 2011 A recent public opinion poll revealed that the top-most research priority areas identified by Pakistanis included Chemistry, Urdu literature, Islamic studies, Arabic, Botany and Zoology. Those who responded to the...
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October 5th, 2011 | by
MuslimScienceBy: Frank Lehner Published in Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy on 30 August 2011. The idea of generating solar energy on a large scale in the sun-intensive countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to satisfy their own increasing energy demand and...
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