I Believe in Science

• Comment: Abdullah Arfa, can you post the three best Arabic newspaper links for me to review? Milowent • ^hasspoken 21:26, 31 December 2018 (UTC)

• Comment: This is no doubt a great project/website, but the citations in the current draft are not showing evidence that it is a notable website? Has it been profiled in any major Arab language newspapers? I think two news articles from different publications about the project/website would make notability more clear. Does it have an article on the Arabic wikipedia? Without news coverage showing notability, I fear this will have to be declined. Milowent • ^hasspoken 18:31, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Milowent The project was profiled in many major Arabic newspapers and this is mentioned in the references (Like Elwatan News, Dot Masr, Arageek and Alfanar Media). It does have an article on Arabic Wikipedia too. The project is followed by millions on social media and has hundreds of volunteers as well. --Abdullah Arfa (talk) 21:53, 28 December 2018 (UTC)

Milowent This is the article in Elwatan News elwatan. This is the article in Asharq Al-awsat aawsat. And this is the article in Alfanar Media alfanar. There are other 15 newspaper and/or website mentioning the project and they're in the references of the Ararbic Wiki article. Abdullah Arfa

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I Believe in Science is a website dedicated to publishing science articles and researches, in a bid to keep the Arabic speaking world up-to-date with the latest discoveries and accomplishments. The project has amassed more than 2000 volunteers who managed to produce around 15000 scientific articles.

Founding

The project started in 2011 by Ahmed al-Rayes, an Iraqi geologist living in Lebanon, across social media platforms, the website was established in 2013. in 2016, the idea became an official NGO registered in both Lebanon and the European Union

In 2012, the project adopted the slogan: I Believe in Science because it’s the only methodology that actually works

Project goals

• Removing and breaking the linguistic barriers that once prevented the Arabic speaking world from reaching true scientific knowledge, by creating a free uninfluenced platform to exchange knowledge and expertise
• Creating and encouraging an environment for the Arab speaking population, that belongs to a hostile culture towards scientific truth, to read and seek scientific knowledge
• Showing the efficiency of the scientific methodology in explaining the biggest phenomena’s surrounding us by focusing on objectivity, refutability and applicability of natural sciences and their discoveries

PhysicistLawrence Krauss is among the scientists who have commented favorably on the project.

I think it’s very important that in the Arabic speaking world, what’s going to determine the difference between the countries that are living and the countries that aren’t are the skilled workforce that can appreciate the revolutions taking place in science, not just the abstract areas but also the applied areas, it’s important that people in the Arab world are exposed to such knowledge, and this project is essential for that to happen.

Similarly, biologist Robert Weinberg has said:

I think that this project is a fantastic thing to have, especially that it’s so popular in the Arab world, and this is the beginning of a new scientific revolution in the Arab world.