Less than three years after the EC and CERN announced the start of the CESSAMag project, the final components left CERN bound for Jordan today

Students and teachers from the Middle East invited to CERN to explore opportunities that arise from international collaboration in science

SESAME – Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East – will be the region’s first light source

The Director-General will begin his mandate after the formal opening of SESAME in late 2016 or the first half of 2017

Rolf Heuer visited the SESAME laboratory in Jordan on 13 April along with European Commissioner for research, Carlos Moedas

The first of the 16 magnetic sectors in the main storage ring of the future light source in Jordan has successfully passed its tests at CERN

During 2015, the International Year of Light, CERN is highlighting the High Luminosity LHC project and CERN’s involvement in the SESAME laboratory

Rolf Heuer on the project to build a synchrotron light source in the Middle East

The Booster Synchrotron – a key machine at the SESAME facility in Jordan – is now operating at full design energy

SESAME needs external top-down help and encouragement to ensure timely completion, says Chris Llewellyn Smith

The 2014 High School Teacher Programme (HST) is well under way, and this year it has a distinct Middle Eastern flavour, says Rolf Heuer

The Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Elettra light source have signed to supply accelerator components worth €1 million to SESAME