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Nature 416, 109 (14 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416109b
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Helping hands for Arab science
Abstract
A grassroots initiative to boost research in the Middle East deserves support — in particular from Arab Americans.
Later this month in Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates, some 500 scientists from across the Arab world will hold what they hope will be a historic gathering. They will set research priorities for the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF), which aims to raise up to US$150 million over five years to award peer-reviewed grants to the region's scientists (see pages 120–122).
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