Middle East and North Africa Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/middle-east-north-africa/ Astronomy for a better world! Tue, 22 Oct 2024 08:21:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://astro4dev.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-03_OAD_symbol_colour_2-32x32.jpg Middle East and North Africa Archives - IAU Office of Astronomy for Development https://astro4dev.org/category/middle-east-north-africa/ 32 32 Pan-African Astronomy School Influences Career Choice of Students https://astro4dev.org/pan-african-astronomy-school-influences-career-choice-of-students/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 08:21:47 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=29052 The Pan-African School for Emerging Astronomers (PASEA) 2024 was the sixth in the series of this school which was first hosted in Abuja, Nigeria as the West African International Summer School for Young Astronomers (WAISSYA) in 2013. This edition of the Summer School was hosted by the Monastir Science Palace, Tunisia from 28th August 2024 [...]

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]]> Sahrawi People Find “A Refuge in the Stars” https://astro4dev.org/sahwari-astronomy-refuge-stars/ Mon, 27 Sep 2021 16:03:55 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=23829 The Amanar 2.0 project is educating and inspiring the Sahrawi population using astronomy as well as recording their traditional astronomy knowledge. Amanar 2.0 is a follow-up of the 2019 Amanar: Under the Same Sky project, both funded by the IAU OAD. It is an initiative to stimulate teachers, support schools, and provide inspiration through astronomy [...]

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]]> Overview: AMANAR 2.0: A refuge in the stars https://astro4dev.org/overview-amanar-2-0-a-refuge-in-the-stars/ Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:16:01 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=21965 AMANAR 2.0 has the main goal of providing scientific education and inspiring children living in the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf (Algeria) and to promote common understanding and a sense of world citizenship. It will be developed considering the experience gained from the previous 2019 edition and using the already established strong contacts at the [...]

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]]> Overview https://astro4dev.org/overview-35/ Wed, 13 Nov 2019 07:34:04 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18979 Like other STEM fields, astronomy suffers from under-representation of women and minorities and lack of role models to inspire the next generation of astronomers, including Lebanon.   The project core is a platform called She Speaks Science www.shespeaksscience.com, that aims to make science accessible and promotes women in STEM, one story at a time. Scheherazade, [...]

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]]> final report https://astro4dev.org/final-report-36/ Fri, 22 Feb 2019 13:29:22 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18289 Project report The 2nd Regional Workshop of IAU South West and Central Asian Regional Office of Astronomy for Development was held on 20 September 2018 in Byurakan in frame of the meeting “Instability Phenomena and Evolution of the Universe” dedicated to Viktor Ambartsumian’s 110th anniversary. The workshop: • Brought together astronomers from the region • [...]

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]]> Winner of Falling Walls Engage 2018 https://astro4dev.org/18215/ Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:56:51 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18215 Francesca Fragcoudi, PI of Columba Hypatia: Astronomy for Peace was one of two winners of the Falling Walls Engage for 2018. Falling Walls Engage is an international platform for all forms of science engagement, hosted by Falling Walls in cooperation with the Robert Bosch Stiftung. Its goal is to showcase successful science engagement projects from [...]

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]]> Overview https://astro4dev.org/overview-21/ Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:06:03 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=18049 The ArAS School for Astrophysics (ArAS SfA) is an initiative of the Arab Astronomical Society (ArAS). Its objective is to give students the opportunity to be trained by professional astronomers in order to make up the shortage of expertise in the field. In 2016 and 2018, using funds from IAU-OAD, we were able to provide [...]

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]]> update: regional workshop https://astro4dev.org/17973/ Wed, 28 Nov 2018 10:31:36 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17973 The 2nd Regional Workshop of IAU South West and Central Asian Regional Office of Astronomy for Development was held on 20 September 2018 in Byurakan. Representatives from the IAU, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkey were present. Scientific talks were given during the Conference on Sep 17-20. Among the participants of the workshop [...]

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]]> update: School themes https://astro4dev.org/update-school-themes/ Mon, 22 Oct 2018 05:43:30 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17824 The preparation for the school is underway ArAS SfA-3 will cover the following fields: Theoretical themes: (i) Star Formation and Nuclear Astrophysics, (ii) Statistical methods for Astronomical Data analysis Writing a proposal: How to write a proposal to obtain observational time in professional telescope Data/Observation: How to get data from telescope archives and How to [...]

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]]> Final report https://astro4dev.org/final-report-31/ Fri, 17 Aug 2018 06:36:31 +0000 https://astro4dev.org/?p=17606 “Columba-Hypatia: Astronomy for Peace” is a joint astronomy outreach project by GalileoMobile and the Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR) which takes place on the island of Cyprus. The project aims to inspire young people, through astronomy, to be curious about science and the cosmos, while also using astronomy as a tool for promoting [...]

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