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T. V. Padma Reporting from World Conference of Science Journalists in DohaPu blished on SciDev.Net on 29 June 2011
Acceptance of evolution varies widely across the Islamic world, demonstrating that stereotypical ideas about Islam and evolution are wrong, said Salman Hameed, director of the Centre for the Study of Science in Muslim Societies (SSiMS) at Hampshire College, United Sates.
But ideas are being moulded now, he said, because of new phenomena such as mass education, migration and access to the Internet.
“This is a unique moment,” Hameed told the 7th World Conference of Science Journalists (27–29 June) in Qatar this week. He presented initial results from a survey that examines the attempts of educated Muslims to reconcile their religion with the evolutionary science.
By Soraya Jamal
Published at Burnama on May 18, 2011 16:43 PM
KUALA LUMPUR, May 18(Bernama) — When United States President Barack Obama made his first major attempt to improve US relations with the Muslim world in Cairo in 2009, he said that one of the enabling tools was science and technology.
In his speech, he called for “partnership” with the Muslim world, after which the United States began a series of activities to enhance science and technology collaboration around the globe from Morocco to Malaysia.
But the concept of ‘science diplomacy’ is not new. For example, the scientific community was instrumental in facilitating US-Sovi...
By: Munir Nayfeh
Published in SciDev.Net on 3 October 2007
Muslim countries should harness their huge diaspora and support collaboration between their expatriate and local scientists, says Munir Nayfeh.
In the last 50 years, huge numbers of intellectuals have migrated from the Muslim world to industrialised countries. Studies estimate the number is almost 500,000 from the Arab world alone, comprising a third of the entire diaspora of professionals from developing countries to the West.
While doctors form about half of this exodus, scientists account for about 15 per cent.
Many of these professionals have been highly successful, accounting for 1-2 per cent of positions a...
By: Ehsan Masood
Published in SciDev.Net on 23 March 2006
The Islamic world’s scientific agency is on a path to reform. Ehsan Masood assesses the obstacles on the road ahead.
Across the Muslim world, the controversy over newspaper cartoons of the prophet Mohammad was reaching a peak. I was heading to Pakistan for a meeting of science ministers on 21 February. At my starting point in Cairo, Egypt, riot police had surrounded the Al Azhar mosque, keeping a close watch on an otherwise peaceful demonstration after Friday prayers.
In Pakistan, demonstrations in several cities had ended in violence. Now the capital Islamabad was under pressure, with religious leaders plan...
By: 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 Africa (MENA) region this year, they created opportunities for greater public voice in governance. Tunisia, for example, recently went through an election, and the Egyptian people are in the process of electing an assembly whose job is to write a new constitution.
And as revolutionaries turn to governance, they will have to address the socioeconomic and cultural challenges facing ten...
By: 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 to export surplus energy to Europe as advocated in the DESERTEC concept1 has publicly received much attention in some countries, particularly in Germany, Morocco, Tunisia, and also substantial support from their governments. Besides the DESERTEC Foundation, an industrial consortium (Dii GmbH) was founded in 2009 which consists of major European and MENA companies to push this project further b...
By: Dr. Athar Osama
Muslim-Science.Com met with Tan Sri Dr. Omar Abdur Rahman, Mahathir’s Science Advisor for over a decade and half and, the “prime mover” behind Mahathir Mohammed’s vision of a Knowledge-driven Malaysia. A deeply humble man, Tan Sri Omar insists that Mahathir was a science policymaker par excellence in his own right and that he would hardly have needed a science advisor. However, he played a critical role in providing scientific credibility to Mahathir’s plans and helping the Prime Minister reach out to the scientific community to build support for his policies.
As Malaysia’s first and longest serving Science Advisor – a position t...
