Research Matters

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.