The following will be of interest to our members:

November 16, 2012. Chris Llewellyn Smith “Synchrotron Light and the Middle East, Bringing the Region’s Scientific Communities Together through SESAME”
http://www.sciencediplomacy.org/perspective/2012/synchrotron-light-and-middle-east

November 26, 2012. BBC News article “Inside the world’s most ‘impossible’ science project
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20446971

Nov. 26, 2012. BBC VIDEO. “Middle East scientists on new Sesame particle accelerator”
(individual scientists from different member countries)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20465431

Nov. 26, 2012. BBC VIDEO. “A Look at the Middle East “CERN”
(views of the installation at that time)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20465428

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