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Nature 416, 365 (28 March 2002) | doi:10.1038/416365e

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Arab science is not stifled by censorship

Omar Bizri1

  1. Chief, Technology Section, United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, Beirut, Lebanon

Including my photograph in the box "Science veiled in secrecy" on page 122 of your News Feature on Arab science — "Blooms in the desert" (Nature 416, 120–122; 2002) — might suggest to your readers that I support the views expressed in the article, about censorship and secrecy in Arab countries.In fact, I emphatically do not share any of these views.