SPACE SCIENCE AND THE ARAB WORLD Astronauts, Observatories, and Nationalism in the Middle East

NEW BOOKS NETWORK INTERVIEW WITH:

JÖRG MATTHIAS DETERMANN, aUTHOR OF:
Space Science and the Arab World
Astronauts, Observatories, and Nationalism in the Middle East
I. B. TAURIS 2018
May 11, 2018 BY James M. Dorsey
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.
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