Latest News
- R Dajani Women in science Panel ISSCR June 26, 2020
- Dr Rana Dajani gave a webinar hosted by popular science in Arabic The title The Corona virus and biological evolution
- Rana Dajani Founder Of We Love Reading Joins Catalyst 2030.
- We Love Reading At The 2020 Skoll World Forum For 2020.
- Can Mena’s graduates tap new wells of prosperity?
- Dr. Rana Dajani (Founder Of WLR) Is One Of The Jury Members
Recent Publications
1.Jacobs foundation Bold Expert Blog: Now is the time to change how we approach education
https://bold.expert/now-is-the-time-to-change-how-we-approach-education/
2.Jordan: where junior and senior scientists meet as equals.
Dajani R.
Nature. 2019 Nov;575(7784):596. doi: 10.1038/d41586-019-03663-5. No abstract available.
3.Clukay, C. J., Matarazzo, A., Dajani, R., Hadfield, K., Panter-Brick, C., & Mulligan, C. J. (2019). FAAH,SLC6A4, and BDNF variants are not associated with psychosocial stress and mental health outcomes in a population of Syrian refugee youth. bioRxiv, 685636. doi:10.1101/685636
4.Dajani R, Dhawan S, Awad S The Increasing Prevalence of Girls in stem Education in the Arab World: What Can We Learn? Sociology of Islam May 2020 Volume 8 issue 2 Page 159-174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/22131418-00802002
5.Rana Dajani, Alya Al Sager, Diego Placido and Dima Amso The Value of the We Love Reading Program for Executive Functions In Jordanian Children
Proceedings of the MIT LINC 2019 Conference, vol 3, pages 61--71
Links:
https://easychair.org/publications/paper/sjDr
6. The Ethics of Gene Editing from an Islamic Perspective: A Focus on the Recent Gene Editing of the Chinese Twins.
Al-Balas QAE, Dajani R, Al-Delaimy WK. Sci Eng Ethics. 2020 Mar 3. doi: 10.1007/s11948-020-00205-5. [Epub ahead of print]
7. HLA-A, -B, -C, -DRB1 and -DQB1 allele and haplotype frequencies and phylogenetic analysis of Bahraini population.
Hajjej A, Saldhana FL, Dajani R, Almawi WY.
Gene. 2020 Apr 20;735:144399. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2020.144399. Epub 2020 Jan 27.
8. Genetic Polymorphisms of Pharmacogenes among the Genetically Isolated Circassian Subpopulation from Jordan.
Al-Eitan LN, Rababa'h DM, Hakooz NM, Alghamdi MA, Dajani RB. J Pers Med. 2020 Jan 6;10(1). pii: E2. doi: 10.3390/jpm10010002.
9. The genetic landscape of Arab Population, Chechens and Circassians subpopulations from Jordan through HV1 and HV2 regions of mtDNA.
Al-Eitan L, Saadeh H, Alnaamneh A, Darabseh S, Al-Sarhan N, Alzihlif M, Hakooz N, Ivanova E, Kelsey G, Dajani R.
Gene. 2020 Mar 1;729:144314. doi: 10.1016/j.gene.2019.144314. Epub 2019 Dec 26.
Recent Books
1. 5 Scarves
Dr. Dajani fulfills many different roles in her life - she wears many different scarves.
2. We Love Reading: An Introduction
The Book Highlights the Philosophy and the Experience of “We Love Reading”
3. Asgar R Dajani, D Amso (2019). Cognitive development mechanisms underlying socioemotional learning
Chapter 14 in Smart et al. (2019). NISSEM Global Briefs: Educating for the social, the emotional and the sustainable. Pp 688-702. Retrieved from: https://nissem.org/node/269
4. Dajani, Rana (2019). What is the secret sauce? The story of the We Love Reading program.
Chapter 34 in Smart et al. (2019). NISSEM Global Briefs: Educating for the social, the emotional and the sustainable. Pp 688-702. Retrieved from: https://nissem.org/node/269.
5. Dajani, Rana. 2019. "Science, Islam and Critical Thinking: Lessons for Museums" in Science Museums in Transition: Unheard Voices.
Eds Hooley McLaughlin and Judy Diamond. London and New York. Routledge. p 19-27.
6. Dajani R Ethics of Stem cells chapter in Research ethics in Middle East Published by Springer 2018
7. Dajani R A chapter in the book Al-Jayyousi, Odeh. Integral Innovation: New Worldviews. London: New York: Routledge,
Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
8. Dajani, Rana. 2016. “Evolution and Islam: Is There a Contradiction?” In Muslim World Science
Initiative: Islam and Science: Muslim Responses to Science’s Big Questions,
Islamabad, February 12-13, 2015, 142-151.