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I wish you all a very happy new year and hope that this year brings with it health and happiness for you. The past year was very hard and challenging for us in ways we had neither expected nor prepared for.

Just like a desert rose has beautified the harsh sandy Arabian deserts for thousands of years, stands a beautiful, dazzling, and noble creature symbolizing endurance, power, and pride – the Arabian horse. Distinguished by a refined head, glistening, eyes, long slender neck, and a marked high tail, an Arabian horse captures the essence of elegance, pride, and vitality and is an integral part of the Middle East’s cultural and historical heritage.

In the words of Albert Einstein, one of the most prolific and influential physicists, art and science are branches of the same tree. However, both these fields are perceived as completely divergent and independent of each other. Art is seen as intuitive, creative, and expressive. Whereas, science and research are taken to be objective, evidence-backed, measured, and even seen by many as boring.

Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) — a member of Qatar Foundation —  has announced the awardees for the thirteenth cycle of its flagship National Priorities Research Program-Standard (NPRP-S). The National Priorities Research Program is the main funding program of QNRF and enables research that can help Qatar address the Grand Challenges outlined in the Qatar National Research Strategy.

Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) – a member of Qatar Foundation, and The National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (CNRST) – under the patronage of The Department of Higher Education and Research at the Ministry of National Education, Vocational Training, Higher Education and Scientific Research of Morocco, are pleased to announce the launch of the Equine Research Call. The awards in this call can go up to four years. The application budget may reach US$ 200,000 for a one-year project, US$ 400,000 for a two-year project, US$ 600,000 for a three-year project, and US$ 700,000 for a four-year project. For multi-year projects, the budget may not exceed US$ 250,000 in any year.