Arkan Simaan

Arkan was born in Lebanon in 1945. When he was two years old, his family immigrated to Brazil and settled in the city of Anápolis near Brasília.https://www.adapt.snes.edu/_Arkan-Simaan-49_.html The 1964 Brazilian coup d'état overthrew the government of João Goulart just as Simaan had begun studying physics at the University of São Paulo. In response to this, he became a student activist.https://www.historia.uff.br/stricto/td/1730.pdf |Reorganização do movimento trotskista no Brasil– a formação da Organização Socialista Internacionalista (1968–1976). Um capítulo da IV Internacional no Brasil. Uma contribuição à história do trotskismo no Brasil |Tiago de Oliveirahttp://www.uel.br/grupo-pesquisa/gepal/v8_tiago_GVI.pdf |Contre le courant:trotskistas na ditadura civil-militar brasileira (1968–1971) |Tiago de Oliveirahttps://www.academia.edu/9611664/N%C3%A3o_seguiram_a_can%C3%A7%C3%A3o._Reorganiza%C3%A7%C3%A3o_do_trotskismo_no_Brasil_posadismo_organiza%C3%A7%C3%A3o_pol%C3%ADtica_e_unifica%C3%A7%C3%A3o._Primeiros_apontamentos_1968-1971_ |Não seguiram a canção. Reorganização do trotskismo no Brasil: posadismo, organização política e unificação. Primeiros apontamentos (1968–1971). |Tiago Oliveirahttps://www.academia.edu/37706552/ENTRE_A_CR%C3%8DTICA_DAS_ARMAS_E_AS_ARMAS_DA_CR%C3%8DTICA_TROTSKISTAS_NA_DITADURA_MILITAR_1968-1973_UMA_CONTRIBUI%C3%87%C3%83O_%C3%80_HIST%C3%93RIA_DO_TROTSKISMO_NO_BRASIL|ENTRE A CRÍTICA DAS ARMAS E AS ARMAS DA CRÍTICA: TROTSKISTAS NA DITADURA MILITAR (1968–1973) UMA CONTRIBUIÇÃO À HISTÓRIA DO TROTSKISMO NO BRASIL |Tese de doutorado de Tiago de Oliveira Sought by the political police and sentenced to jail in absentia, he went underground.http://www.ebooksbrasil.org/eLibris/ipmcrusp.html IPM CRUSP – 1968–1969 – Relatóriohttps://fr.scribd.com/document/246719548/ipmcrusp IPM CRUSP – 1968–1969 – Relatório His name was then cited in several prosecutions. Forced to flee Brazil, he arrived in Paris in 1970.

After a few years in France, Simaan refrained from activities that were connected with his prior political involvement. In Paris he resumed his studies in physics at the University Paris Diderot. He then attended the Institut Supérieur des Matériaux et de la Construction Mécanique from which he received an engineering degree. Following a short spell in industry, he realized that he wanted to teach,{{Cite web|url=http://union-rationaliste.org/index.php/rationalisme-scientifique/emissions/radio-libertaire/132-lecuyer-dhenri-le-navigateur|title=L'écuyer d'Henri le Navigateur|website=Union rationaliste|access-date=2022-07-08|archive-date=2020-10-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025131542/http://union-rationaliste.org/index.php/rationalisme-scientifique/emissions/radio-libertaire/132-lecuyer-dhenri-le-navigateur}} so he obtained the agrégation in physics.

In 2012 he was one of the founders of Planète Amazone,{{cite web | url=https://www.larep.fr/sandillon-45640/actualites/arkan-simaan-presente-son-roman-vendu-au-profit-de-planete-amazone_14417639/ | title=Sandillon - Arkan Simaan présente son roman vendu au profit de Planète Amazone | date=8 December 2023 }}{{cite web | url=https://www.larep.fr/sandillon-45640/loisirs/un-roman-en-soutien-aux-indie_14430906/ | title=Sandillon - Un roman en soutien aux Indiens d'Amazonie | date=5 January 2024 }} a French non-governmental organization defending indigenous peoples.https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2015/07/22/valdelice-veron-la-porte-parole-des-guarani-kaiowa-accuse-le-bresil-d-ecocide_4693676_3244.html |Valdelice Veron, la porte-parole des Guarani-Kaiowa accuse le Brésil d'« écocide » |Le Monde 22 julho de2015 He took part in the travels in Europe of the chief Raoni.https://www.diariodocentrodomundo.com.br/estamos-batalhando-para-isso-diz-cientista-frances-sobre-pressao-para-cancelar-evento-em-paris-do-governo-bolsonaro/ |"Estamos batalhando para isso", diz cientista sobre pressão para cancelar evento em Paris do governo Bolsonaro|

Arkan Simaan is member of the scientific patronage committee of Association Française pour l'Information Scientifique.{{Cite web|url=https://www.afis.org/Qui-sommes-nous|title=Qui sommes-nous ?|website=Afis Science – Association française pour l’information scientifique}}

All his books were originally written in French, and many of them have won awards.

• (With Joëlle Fontaine) "L'Image du Monde des Babyloniens à Newton" (Adapt Editions, Paris, 1998)
• "Cette sentence vous fait plus peur qu'à moi-même : Giordano Bruno" (Cahiers rationalistes, 2000)
• "La science au péril de sa vie – les aventuriers de la mesure du monde" (Vuibert / Adapt, Paris, 2001.) In 2002 this book was awarded Prize of Special Book in Astronomy (Prix Spécial du livre d'astronomie)
• "Vénus devant le soleil – comprendre et observer un phénomène astronomique" (Vuibert / Adapt, 2003). This book concerns the transit of Venus across the Sun.
• "L'Image du Monde de Newton à Einstein" (Vuibert / Adapt, Paris, 2005)
• "Le paradoxe de la science: Fritz Haber" (Cahiers rationalistes n° 579, November 2005)
• "L'Écuyer d'Henri le Navigateur" (Éditions Harmattan, Paris, 2007)
• "Un marin en Terre des perroquets", (Ancre de marine éditions, Saint-Malo, 2024), 156 p. {{ISBN|978-2841414789}}

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• [http://www.adapt.snes.edu/spip.php?mot23 Adapt Éditions]
• [http://www.futura-sciences.com/fr/comprendre/carte-blanche/scientifique/t/matiere/d/simaan_25/ Futura-sciences]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071025095925/http://www.atramsey.freeserve.co.uk/transitofvenus/phys_ed_1.pdf The transit of Venus across the Sun]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071025001803/http://www.ase.org.uk/htm/members_area/journals/ssr/ssr_mar_pdf/ssr_pg95-100.pdf The transit of Venus: a stroke of luck for teachers]
• [http://www.bulletins-electroniques.com/actualites/038/38376.htm The Image of the World from Newton to Einstein]
• [https://www.afis.org/Arkan-Simaan Articles and reviews for the rationalist journal Science et pseudo-sciences] on afis.org {{in lang|fr}}
• [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17p7pa_arkan-simaan-la-science-en-questions_tech/ Arkan Simaan : La science en questions II série À Ciel ouvert] – video on dailymotion.com {{in lang|fr}}
• [https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x17p7o3/ (fr) Arkan Simaan : La science en questions II série À Ciel ouvert] – video on dailymotion.com

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