UAE Launches ‘Great Arab Minds,’ Backing it with $27 Million

[The SC]

5 January, 2022

Dubai - Asharq Al-Awsat

UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has announced the Museum of the Future in Dubai will lead the ‘Great Arab Minds’ initiative.

The goal of the initiative is to seek out distinguished Arab scholars, thinkers, creators and innovators across all fields, sponsor them, build their capacities, and develop their ideas in cooperation with global partners to increase their positive impact on the region.

The five-year initiative seeks to pick out the most important 1,000 Arab brilliant minds in the fields of physics, mathematics, coding, research and economics and support them practically and in their research.

The Ruler of Dubai announced that 100 million Dirhams (27 million dollars) would be allocated to the initiative, with a committee of four Emirati Ministers tasked with developing a system for identifying and supporting exceptional Arab thinkers and talents.

He also said that the Museum of the Future would serve as the Great Arab Minds initiative’s headquarters.

In a series of tweets on the 16th anniversary of his accession, Sheikh Mohammed said: “Today we launch a new project to search for 1,000 Great Arab Minds in the fields of physics and mathematics, software and data science, and others. Our goal is to empower them and help them play a positive role in the region.”

“We have built a science museum that meets global standards- Museum of the Future- and we will soon open it, god willing. It will be the administrative and intellectual center of this new Arab scientific movement. Personally, I am betting on science, scientists, and thinkers changing the Arab world’s state of affairs,” he added, before saying: “These great minds will be supported in their research and practice, as they will be linked with the biggest thinkers, scientists, and companies in the world and their ideas will be developed so that their positive impact on the region is strengthened.”

According to the details released Tuesday, Great Arab Minds seeks to launch, under the UAE leadership, the largest movement of its kind in the Arab world to develop an elite of Arab scientists, thinkers, and innovators across key fields, to create a nucleus of a society of knowledge and innovation in the Arab world and provides added value for the scientific and innovative communities around the world.

The massive initiative aims to support the best of the Arab world’s minds and talents, shed light on these extraordinary thinkers, talents and their achievements. It is framed within a long-term vision to maintain the brilliant and innovative youths of the Arab world and make use of their capacities to the greatest extent possible, thereby making the Arab world attractive to these geniuses because it rewards them instead of pushing them to emigrate.


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[Clutch]

Sounds pretty racist if you ask me...

 

[Philip the Arab]

Sounds pretty racist if you ask me...

YOU ARE A FUCKING GOOFBALL

 

[Clutch]

YOU ARE A FUCKING GOOFBALL

Why?

 

[Cryptic_Mafia]

Arab nationalism the bs that dint work in past and dumb kings will fail again!

 

[Clutch]

Arab nationalism the bs that dint work in past and dumb kings will fail again!

Exactly... It's just an ego stroking charade by the ignorant government of UAE.

Arab nationalism of the 1960s failed and flopped.... They all became today's Syria, Libya, Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Egypt.... All failed or failing states.

How about the West making a "Great White Minds" fund???... They won't. Because those who are truely great thinkers do not have pathetic ego stroking endeavours.

Period.

 

[SQ8]

Before the usual knee jerk Arab hate starts up - this represents a GCC initiative to increase their knowledge base and education background - which has come leaps and bounds from the usual stereotypes.
Now as part of this if other countries wish to participate and join instead of badmouthing while their general population is either hating on 7up QR codes, making fake 5th gen fighters or blowing themselves up .. they are welcome to reach out to the UAE and other channels.

Sounds pretty racist if you ask me...

The GCC is Arab majority states that while divided on many ethnic and tribal lines have decided to stick under arab. Racist is the quota system in Pakistan for education.

 

[Wilhelm II]

YOU ARE A FUCKING GOOFBALL

Those Arab haters just want to trolling even by illogical and childish ways even during their countries are in worse situations

 

[War Eagle]

The UAE always baffles me. They've done more to sabotage and backstab Arab progress in the region than many other foreign nations. If they truly wish to Improve the Arab condition, maybe they should look inward to fixing their rotten morality.

 

[tower9]

The UAE always baffles me. They've done more to sabotage and backstab Arab progress in the region than many other foreign nations. If they truly wish to Improve the Arab condition, maybe they should look inward to fixing their rotten morality.

Well if you want to be cynical, you can see this initiative as just a way for a tiny, resource poor but capital rich country like the UAE to siphon off the talent pool of the Arab world for their own use.

 

[War Eagle]

Well if you want to be cynical, you can see this initiative as just a way for a tiny, resource poor but capital rich country like the UAE to siphon off the talent pool of the Arab world for their own use.

They aren't going to be siphoning off talent, they've made sure of that even if that is their half-assed intention. They've destroyed freedom and democracy in practically every corner of the Arab world. Why should educated and talented Arabs stay in the despotic garbage dumps that are Arab states when they could immigrate to free and democratic countries in the West?

 

[313ghazi]

27 million is a pittance. The idea is great but the fund should be at least 10 times that and annually.

 

[tower9]

They aren't going to be siphoning off talent, they've made sure of that even if that is their half-assed intention. They've destroyed freedom and democracy in practically every corner of the Arab world. Why should educated and talented Arabs stay in the despotic garbage dumps that are Arab states when they could immigrate to free and democratic countries in the West?

Not being a democracy has not stopped the UAE from attracting tons of foreign workers to its shores. Just the high salaries alone and the high living standards would be a draw to people from around the Arab world, as well as the cultural familiarity.

 

[War Eagle]

has not stopped the UAE from attracting tons of foreign workers to its shores.

You mean the low skilled practical slave labor? Yeah, real great "attractions" for an electrical engineer or doctor who could be living far more comfortably in New York or London or Toronto or Berlin where they could actually enjoy real freedom of speech and not worry about their governments arresting them and torturing them for daring to speak an opinion contrary to the official government line. Or rogue government officials dictating every acceptable behavior and having a say into the governance of the place they live with real legitimate accountability for authorities.

as well as the cultural familiarity.

The only "Arab culture" found in the Arab world is Authoritarian garbage. What culture is there in the UAE? Calligraphy and falconry and that's about it. Nothing is authentic about Arab world anymore. There is no real or genuine art or culture in these places, it's replaced with government propaganda and dictator sycophants. The mirage of Western civility with none of the rights or freedoms or humanity found in it.

 

[Abu Dhabi]

50 years of moving forward and the Dogs continue barking ....