https://spacewatch.global/tag/pan-arab-space-cooperation/ AN INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE ON SPACE Tue, 17 Sep 2019 05:00:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://spacewatch.global/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/SpaceWatchGlobal-Sign-90x90.png https://spacewatch.global/tag/pan-arab-space-cooperation/ 32 32 https://spacewatch.global/2019/09/arab-league-and-uae-space-agency-discuss-arab-space-cooperation-group/ Tue, 17 Sep 2019 05:00:05 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=16005 Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Secretary-General of the Arab League, received Eng. Mohamed Nasser Al Ahbabi, Director-General of the UAE Space Agency, at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Arab League in Cairo, to discuss an initiative launched by the UAE to establish the "Arab Space Cooperation Group."]]> https://spacewatch.global/2018/10/spacewatchgl-oped-pan-arab-space-cooperation-for-economic-development-and-fighting-climate-change/ Sun, 07 Oct 2018 08:00:22 +0000 https://spacewatch.global/?p=10712 The benefits of space to the Middle East and North Africa region are undeniable, yet there is no single representative body to champion the sector. The near total inexistence of coordination or even collaboration has resulted in calls for the creation of a Pan-Arab Space Agency, to operate and coordinate programs in a comparable manner to the European Space Agency (ESA).]]>