Nature Middle East

The Arab world has a rich history of scientific enquiry. During the Golden Age of Science, the region built on texts from the neighbouring regions of Greece, Persia and India, to achieve great discoveries and inventions in areas such as algebra, optics, medicine and astronomy. Arabic was the language of science for more than 500 years. Arabic scholarship was translated into Latin, feeding back into neighbouring regions to lay the foundations for the European enlightenment and modern Western science. Nature Middle East was launched with an understanding of the potential of the Arab world to once again be an important centre of science. It covers a diverse group of 18 nations: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Nature Middle East recognizes the contribution of different peoples working together, united by a common language. Nature Middle East is a comprehensive portal for information on scientific and medical research in the Arabic-speaking Middle East, the research community and its activities. It has a broad scope that caters for scientific and medical researchers at all levels, from students to post-doctoral fellows to principal