Plan9 – Bringing Ideas to Life

By Areej Mehdi Entrepreneurship can be a lonely, dark place. For Pakistani tech entrepreneurs, that seems to be literally true (what with power shortage amounting to 12 hours a day sometimes). Pitted against this lack of funds, mentorship, and resources, is Punjab Information... Read More

Muslim-Science.Com’s List of Twenty Most Influential Women in Science in the Islamic World

Muslim-Science.Com has the pleasure of presenting to you, the first ever List of ‘Top-20 Most Influential Women in Science in the Islamic World’. These are truly the unsung and little known heroines of the Islamic World whose contribution to the development of... Read More

‘The Anti-Revolutionary’: One on one with Dr. Rana Dajani

By the Editors of Muslim-Science.com Dr. Rana Dajani obtained a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Iowa, USA; a Fulbright alumnus, she is currently Assistant Professor and Former Director of the Center of Studies at the Hashemite University, Jordan. Her research... Read More

Islam Analysis (21): The mobile route to a high-tech future

By:Athar Osama Published on SciDev.Net on 13 June 2012 Muslim countries need forward-looking policies to take advantage of the opportunities offered by mobile technology, says Athar Osama. The mobile phone is recognised across the world as one of the greatest enabling... Read More

A Transformational Role for Our Public Universities

By: Tan Sri Dr. Omar Abdul Rahman At the 34th convocation of UPM in October 2010 in my “ucapan balas” for the conferment of emeritus professorship of the university, I had suggested a defined new role for our public universities in line with current emphasis... Read More

Islam Analysis (17): Reviving a culture of entrepreneurship

The Muslim world and donors should use nongovernmental networks to nurture the dormant seeds of entrepreneurship, says Athar Osama. Entrepreneurship and innovation may look like inherently Western ideas in the twenty-first century. Yet they have been part and parcel of Muslim... Read More

Malaysia: Time to put plans into action

With all the extraordinary hype about phone hacking in the UK, you could be forgiven for missing the recent visit of the Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Tun Razak to the UK. Najib met with the UK Prime Minister, David Cameron, the Queen as well... Read More

Islam Analysis (7): Revive failing scientific networks

Published in SciDev.Net on 18 May 2011 S&T ministerial committee must reform its Inter-Islamic Networks to promote real collaboration with clear objectives, argues Athar Osama. Last month, The Royal Society released a study of global scientific networks and collaboration... Read More

SciDev.Net: Private Sector Can Help Islamic Science

By: Abdalla Alnajjar SciDev.Net, published on 3 October 2007 The Muslim world need not lag behind in science and technology. Abdalla Alnajjar looks at an initiative that is charting a new approach. Science, technology and innovation are now viewed alongside natural resources,... Read More

Creating Economic Clusters in the Muslim World

By: Athar Osama Published in DinarStandard.com, July 2006 In the 1980s and 1990s, Silicon Valley propelled the world into the computer and internet age and, in the process, captivated the world’s imagination as a model region for organizing economic and innovative activity.... Read More