The fruitful collaboration between the two laboratories and the Bahraini scientific community were in focus during the CERN & SESAME Info Days at the University of Bahrain

On 14 January, CERN representatives met with a Lebanese delegation to celebrate the shipping of donated computer servers to Lebanon following a fundraising campaign for the High-Performance Computing for Lebanon (HPC4L) project

On 27 July, SESAME, the new synchrotron facility for the Middle East and neighbouring countries, announced its first call for experiment proposals

This week the first of the 16 cells of SESAME’s storage ring was installed in the shielding tunnel in the centre’s experimental hall in Allan, Jordan