All about light

To mark UNESCO's celebration of the 1st edition of the International Day of Light, on 16 May 2018, the Courier invites its reader to discover a selection of related articles published over the years.

• SESAME: scientific excellence in the Middle East, by Anoud Al-Zou’bi, 16 May 2018, News and Views Online (digital supplement of the Courier)
• Ibn al-Haytham’s scientific method, by Shaikh Mohammad Razaullah Ansari. News and Views Online (digital supplement of the Courier)
• Tebello Nyokong: I love laser – it’s my guiding light. January - March 2011
• UNESCO and CERN: like hooked atoms. An interview with Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Director-General of CERN (2009-2015). January - March 2011
• Over the Moon, by Hatim Salih. July-August 2009
• Our middle-aged neighbouring star, by Pierre Lantos, January 1995
• The art of making light work (in Japan), by Motoko Ishii. December 1987
• The years of the quiet sun, by Nicolai Pushkov and Boris SiIkin, September 1966
• Movement & light in today's art, by Frank Popper, September 1963

Read also our issues 

• The Sun: ancient myths, new technologies, January 1995
• Lasers: 100 million messages on a beam of light, February 1964