The International Year of Light

I'll look for when/where the U.N. may have proclaimed the same.

"OPEN SESAME" 

"Open Sesame" (Arabic: افتح يا سمسم‎ iftaḥ yā simsim, French: Sésame, ouvre-toi) is a magical phrase in the story of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" in One Thousand and One Nights. It opens the mouth of a cave in which forty thieves have hidden a treasure.   Wiki

Modern and not so modern 'programming'?:

Video game for PS3  called "Open Sesame-Dragon's Crown"

Nov. 26, 1937 Popeye (I yam what I yam) takes on 'Abu Hassan and his forty theives'.

http://spie.org/x112309.xml

The U.N. 2015 program, "The International Year of Light and light-based technologies", kicked off in Paris-the 'City of Light'.

I wish this Nobel laureate hadn't been invited to speak:

" it (light)is a source of artistic inspiration for visual artists and musicians, and plays a role in most of the world's theologies. Light is also the source of life, pointed out renowned Mexican architect Gustavo Avilés, saying, "Light is the sex act between Earth and the sky."

Another 'esteemed' speaker: "Ziad Aldrees, Saudi Arabia's Ambassador and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO, harkened back to the scientific contributions of Ibn al-Haytham, whose seminal Book of Optics was written around 1015, and others working in the "Golden Age" of Muslim civilization."
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From Wiki:
The IYL 2015 launched at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris on 19 January 2015, with the unveiling of 1001 Inventions and the World of Ibn Al-Haytham which is a global campaign that includes a series of interactive exhibits, workshops and live shows about Ibn Al-Haytham's achievements in optics, mathematics and astronomy, and his importance in laying the foundations of the present day scientific experimental method. The campaign was created by the 1001 Inventions organisation, which is a founding partner of the International Year of Light. ^[9].
As part of the international campaign, UNESCO will also host an exhibition and a conference, to take place on 14 September 2015, titled The Islamic Golden Age of Science for the Knowledge-Based Society.