Open Sesame: Science centre unveiled in Jordan

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We're living in crazy times when Jordanians, Iranians, Palestinians, and Israelis can all come together to open a new Synchrotron, but I'm excited to see it happening. This really will be great for building up science in the Middle East.

"Science" has been doing pretty well in Israel for quite some time. Hopefully science in the greater Middle East will do better now.

Oh, I heard Iran got pallets of cash not too long ago. Maybe they can break a brick or two off and pay their share of this endevour.

Irans managed to hold its own very successfully despite being embargoed and boycotted by the wider international community.

This IEEE Spectrum article [1] from 2010 made me aware of the SESAME project at the time and tells the story of what the researchers went through to get it started.

[1] "SESAME Synchrotron's Battle for Light" http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/sesame-synch...

Finally, some positive news in the media. How can one help? If you have the need for software send me a message!

A few years ago, as I was working as a programmer in another synchrotron, I remember seeing an open position for a software engineer at SESAME. I considered applying to travel a bit.

They have a jobs page but no position for a software engineer as of now: http://sesame.org.jo/sesame/jobs.html

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