The Centre organises cultural events such as the screening of Safar: A Journey through Popular Arab Cinema in 2012 and Arabic language and calligraphy classes.
Samuel Tisherman and Patrick Kochanek at the University of Pittsburgh's Safar Center for Resuscitation Research hope that much more radical cooling can save trauma victims.
Earlier this year, for example, Safar al-Hawali, a popular preacher once imprisoned for his combative views, launched a group called the World Campaign to Fight Aggression.
But deep cooling is invasive and complicated, requiring a trained four-person team. (Safar Center spinoff company EPR-Technologies hopes to develop automated chilling equipment.) Far easier would be a drug that induces hibernation on demand.