Category Archives: Middle East and North Africa

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FAWSA will provide a platform for astrophysics knowledge sharing, triggering collaborations between fellow Arab astrophysicists, and building a strong professional Arab community in the field. The scope of the winter school covers the following fields: • Solar System and Exoplanets • Solar Physics • Galactic Astronomy: Stars, Stellar Clusters, Nebulae, SNR and ISM • Extragalactic Astronomy: Galaxy […]

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So far, “Development of Astro Tourism in South West Asia” project has been run during 5 months, March-July 2016. We have studied the situation with Astronomical Tourism in the world to extend it to our area with perspective of its development. Astro Tourism is part of the Scientific Tourism. In March-June 2016, a number of visits by […]

Crowd Funding Campaign

“Gaza Ambassadors of Mars” has launched a crowd funding campaign to fund an Astronomy trip for 50 school students between the ages of 8 to13. The students, accompanied by their teachers, will visit Al-Aqsa university where they will be attend lectures and partake in educational activities, including telescope observations. The campaign is raising funds to cover the costs […]

Overview of the project

Project leader: Areg Mickaelian, aregmick@yahoo.com Project location: Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Israel, Turkey, United Arab Emirates Project Description: People usually travel to get acquainted with culture, history, art and architecture of a country or a city. Why not add an Astronomy context to tourism? Why not visit observatories, laboratories, science museums, planetariums and archeoastronomy sites? South […]

Overview of the project

Project leader: Raid M Suleiman, rsuleiman@cfa.harvard.edu Project location: Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Algeria, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya/Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Mauritania, Morocco, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia Project Description: The main objective of this project is to start building an infrastructure of solid graduate […]