Category: Middle East

My experience as a Kurdish Undergraduate Scientist in Iraq

Soma Sardar Barawi: "As a Kurdish nationalist first, and a future forensic biologist second, I desperately want to serve my homeland through the use of modern forensic technology."

/ March 26, 2020

Ibn Al Haytham: The Father of Modern Optics

Though he wasn’t always successful and did not even start as a scientist by profession, his scientific legacy stands. Ibn al Haytham is one of many non-western scientists whose work has significantly contributed to building science as we know it...

/ February 18, 2019

Positivity in the Face of Setbacks: My Developing Journey in Science

Saumya Menon - Motherhood is a full time job. My family is my priority but I continue to yearn for the day when I will get the opportunity to continue my journey pursuing a career in research. I am confident...

/ April 21, 2018

NPR: An Unstoppable Scientist

– Published by Michaeleen Doucleff on NPR on June 20, 2017 –  “Two years ago, Eqbal Dauqan was going to work in the morning as usual. She’s a biochemistry professor. And was driving on the freeway, when suddenly: “I felt...

/ June 24, 2017