* Astronomy

Let me take you back to 1960. It is three years after the launch of Sputnik 1 and Manoug Manougian is a young mathematics and physics lecturer at Haigazian College in Beirut, Lebanon, with a fascination for rocketry.
At a time when the global focus was on space exploration, 25-year-old Manougian decided to harness this excitement to teach science and mathematics. Gathering together a group of like-minded students, he formed a small rocketry society and began to experiment with solid rocket fuels at a farm belonging to the family of one of the students.
By April 1961, they were ready to launch their first rocket, an event that garnered a good deal of attention.
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Exhibition: Lebanese Rocket Society: Elements for a monument
by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige
Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates
16 March to 16 May 2011

In November 1960, a group of Haigazian College students got together under the guidance of Manoug Manougian (a Math and Physics instructor) to form the Haigazian College Rocket Society (HCRS).
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The Arz missiles are a series of missiles developed by Haigazian College and the Lebanese army during the 1960s. There were three types: Arz 1, Arz 2, and Arz 3.
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