Benjamin Plackett
Since 2013, Benjamin has been travelling to the Arab world to tell stories of science and research, sometimes in recent post-conflict zones. He’s met researchers, who at great personal risk, hurriedly buried their expensive lab equipment as ISIS approached Mosul and he’s interviewed university administrators attempting to rebuild the region’s answer to Oxbridge even as terrorist attacks continue to threaten the campus. His work has been published by Scientific American, Associated Press, CNN, and Engadget amongst others. He has an M.A. in journalism from New York University and a B.Sci. in biology from Imperial College, London.
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Lebanese University Researchers Zero In on Students’ Stress and Depression
Two studies highlight the stresses of student life, both physical and mental.
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Water Testing in Iraq Shows Urgency of Remedying Environmental Neglect
Researchers are taking a closer look at rivers and lakes that supply drinking water to cities in northern Iraq. They…
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U.A.E. Researcher Develops New Way of Measuring Stroke Damage
Strokes are an increasingly common health problem in Arab countries. A scientist in Abu Dhabi uses technology and careful observation…
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A New Way of Attacking Viruses Could Help the Arab Region
Researchers are developing single treatments that could fight a wide variety of disease-causing viruses, many of them prevalent in Arab…
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False Research Results—A Global Problem That Includes the Arab World
Data analysis by Al-Fanar Media has found that two of the highest research producers in the Arab world—Egypt and Saudi…
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Teachers Can Help Refugee Students’ Mental Health, Report Says
A UNESCO policy paper calls on schools and teachers to detect and treat the mental-health problems of refugee pupils. Many…
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Bureaucracy Unnecessarily Slows Down Human-Tissue Research, Arab Scientists Say
Some researchers say winning government permission for work with humans or human tissue is unnecessarily difficult in some Arab countries,…
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Researchers Confront Puzzles About Risk and Disease in the Arab World
With non-infectious diseases on the rise, scientists and policy makers look for ways of obtaining more reliable data about who’s…
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In Muscat, Rare Mice Help Scientists Understand High Blood Pressure
With access to a laboratory that houses mice and rats, a researcher in Oman has created a new biological insight…
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An Arab Student’s Guide to Higher-Education Accreditation
This article is an updated companion to our searchable database of internationally accredited higher-education institutions and programs in the Arab…
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