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Yemeni Microbiologist Fathiah Zakham Seeks Better Diagnostics for Tuberculosis
Fathiah Zakham has won international honors for her work to find faster, more accurate tools to fight drug-resistant strains of…
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Nobel Laureate Ardem Patapoutian’s Path to the Prize Started in Beirut
Ardem Patapoutian, a co-winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Medicine, was born in Lebanon. War shifted his studies and…
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Mubarak Hemoudi Depicts the Heritage of Sudan From the U.S.
Mubarak Hemoudi’s paintings relate the stories and ways of life of “forgotten” people in Sudan’s marginalized rural regions.
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Nadia Habash: Palestinian Engineering Leader Wants Her Work to Serve Social Needs
She has won many awards for her work, which reflects her philosophy that architecture should put people first and respect…
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Michel Mawad: A Pioneering Neurologist Leads the Lebanese American University
Michel Mawad took office as president last fall. Skills he learned in his medical career will help him lead the…
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Libyan Higher Education Minister Has High Aims but Scant Funds
Omran Al-Qeeb is striving to rebuild and improve Libya's universities and research institutions. Lack of financial resources is the biggest…
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Alia Muhammad Baqer, Savior of Basra Library’s Books, Dies at 69
As Basra’s chief librarian, Alia Muhammed Baqer rescued 30,000 books and manuscripts from being lost as British forces occupied the…
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Narimane Hadj-Hamou: A Pioneer of Distance Learning in the Arab World
The founder of a center dedicated to training academics in advanced teaching methods says the role of the university is…
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Chahinda Karim, a Scholar of the History of Islamic Architecture, Dies
Chahinda Karim is remembered as a teacher and a scholar of the history of Islamic architecture from its origins to…
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