The visit aimed at discussing possible means of mutual cooperation between An-Najah and the centre where Dr. Khaled Toukan, Director-General of the SESAME and Chairman of the Jordan Atomic Energy Commission received a personal letter from Professor Maher Natsheh, Acting President of An-Najah for developing academic relations.

An-Najah delegation attended a number of lectures on accelerator physics and its uses and synchrotron radiations and their applications. They also visited the accelerator physics to discuss its working principle and importance.

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The delegation included Dr. Sami Jaber; Dr. Hadeel Abu Al-Rub and Dr. Ahmed Basalat; lecturers at the Physics Department in addition to a number of the university’s graduate and under-graduate students.

SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) aims at fostering scientific and technological excellence in the Middle East and neighboring countries by enabling world-class scientific research in subjects ranging from biology, archaeology and medical sciences through basic properties of materials science, physics, chemistry, and life sciences; building scientific and cultural relations between diverse societies and contributing to a culture of peace through international cooperation in science.