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SESAME: Science and Diplomacy in the Middle East
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CERN (the home of the Large Hadron Collider, and the birthplace of the World Wide Web) was conceived in the aftermath of the Second World War with the twin aims of enabling good science, and of building bridges between nations that had recently been in conflict. SESAME (Synchrotron light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East), which is a major scientific facility that is coming into use in Jordan, shares CERN’s aims (although the science it will enable is very different). The Members, some of which are currently in conflict, are Cyprus, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Pakistan, the Palestinian Authority and Turkey. SESAME is:
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