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Jörg Matthias Determann, “Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories, and Nationalism in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
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Jörg Matthias Determann, “Space Science and the Arab World: Astronauts, Observatories, and Nationalism in the Middle East” (I. B. Tauris, 2018)
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61 minutes
Released:
May 11, 2018
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Space Science and the Arab World, Astronauts, Observatories and Nationalism in the Middle East (I. B. Tauris, 2018) a recently published history of Arab exploration of space, offers a fascinating insight into fundamental issues shaping the contemporary Middle East, including efforts to turn Arab societies into twenty first-century knowledge-based economies and the role of the religion and its relationship to science. Assistant Professor Jörg Matthias Determann takes the reader on a highly readable and well-documented tour of the struggle of Arab scientists to contribute to the development on space studies and how scientific research contributes to reform and change in the Arab world. It is a process that often meant that scientists were forced to pursue their studies and explorations outside of the region and in doing so contributed to concepts of cosmopolitanism in the region.
James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
May 11, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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