Qatar National Library is pleased to invite all to a public lecture on the natural forces that define Qatar’s environment, and their significant role in shaping past, present and future life in Qatar. The lecture will be conducted by Dr. Essam Heggy, a planetary scientist at the University of Southern California, and a ROSETTA co-investigator at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

In this lecture, Dr. Heggy will discuss the way Qatar’s early inhabitants may have developed a unique understanding of groundwater and sea levels, dune movements, and other phenomena, and how they built an intuitive scientific heritage that helped them understand natural forces and adapt their daily survival around climatic shifts.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A session.

Thursday, 19 April 2018

10:00 – 11:00 AM

Venue: QNL Special Events Area

Language: English, but Arabic interpretation will be provided

Seats are limited. To register, please click the button below.