Egypt and Kazakhstan to Cooperate on Science and Technology

Read the full article by Wagdy Sawahel, SciDev.Net, 16 March 2007.

This is very interesting, as two Islamic, secular nations with a legacy of Soviet scientific and technological culture enter into a cooperative venture in key development areas including: "pharmaceuticals, agriculture, energy, food science, information technology, biotechnology and industrial research."

It will be interesting if the scientists from the nations can effectively span their differences -- Turkic versus Arab, oil rich versus struggling economy, etc.

If these two can cooperate on science and technology to advance more rapidly, they may provide a very important and leadership to the scientific and technological communities of the Islamic world.