Dr. Ahmed Zewail Exposed

If you are an Egyptian then you have definitely heard about Dr. Ahmed Zewail, the Egyptian scientist who won the Noble prize back in 1999. The real question is how much do we know about Dr. Zewail, for example how many of you know anything about his affiliation with Israel or America. Also, how many of you think that just because he won the Noble prize that he's fit to be the next Egyptian president or an educational and political reformer. The purpose of this post is expose Dr. Zewail for what he really is and for what he really is fit for, and that he is not our saviour.

First lets start with some background info, Dr. Zewail is an EGYPTIAN AMERICAN who was born in 1946 in Damanhour, Egypt. He got his bachelors and MS degrees from Alexandria University, he then moved to the US for his PhD which he got from the University of Pennsylvania. There is also a post-doctoral fellowship which he completed at the University of California. Oh and lets not forget that he became an American citizen in  1982. All this indicates that he actually spent a large part of his life living in America not Egypt.

What earned him a Noble prize was his work in Femtochemistry, which is the study of chemical reactions across femto seconds. His technique makes it possible to describe the chemical reactions during very short times meaning that the transition states in chemical reactions can be analysed.

His work made him the 3rd egyptian to win the Noble prize after president Anwar Al-Sadat in 1978 and Naguib Mahfouz in 1988. This means that he wasn't the 1st Egyptian ever to win the Noble prize nor was he the last one since Mohamed El Baradie won a Noble prize after him in 2005; meaning that he is not unique.

In 2009 Obama named him as his scientific envoy to the middle east, he is also a member of the Presidential Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Have anyone heard of the Wolf prize? Well if not, this prize is an Israeli one and it is being presented since 1978 in Tel Aviv, to those who are believed to be working in the interest of man kind. For someone to win the prize apart from doing work that deserves the award they also are required to spend some time in Israel. Each prize consists of a bouquet of roses, a box of chocolate, a diploma and $100,000. Dr. Zewail was given this award in 1993. This means that he actually stayed in Israel for some time; more specifically he spent 1 year playing for lack of a better word in the Weizmann Institute.

Did any one notice that we never heard of Dr. Zewail giving a lecture in an Egyptian university that is scientific in nature, not even once; mean while he gave numerous scientific lectures in Israel and America; it just has to make us wonder about what Dr. Zewail thinks is important and his priorities. Also rumour has it that he gave 13 PhD and Masters grants to Israeli youth.

One of the phrases that I find really interesting is "Science and knowledge have no country." this was actually said by Dr. Zewail. I agree with Dr. Zewail science and knowledge truly don't belong solely to only one country they belong to all human kind; this is provided that the purpose of this science is to improve the life of man kind. Mean while Dr. Zewail thinks that since science has no country then its ok to develop laser guided missiles for murderers since after all science belongs to all man kind. So, why not develop weapons for Israel; it wont really hurt anyone except of course the Palestinians. Funny thing is we never heard of Dr. Zewail developing weapons for Palestine, in order to fight back and be on equal footing with Israel. (I'm not completely certian how true this is but I thought I had to include just on the off chance that it is.)

What we can conclude is the follwoing Zewail is an American, he spent most of his life in America, he is the US Scientific envoy to Egypt and he's Obama's scientific advisor; this covers his relations with America, While his relations with Israel include living for a year there, receiving the Israeli wolf award, giving lectures and last but not least developing weapons. What I am curious about is how can people demand that someone like Dr. Zewail be Egypt's next president how in gods name can we put another countries advisor as our president.

How exactly did Dr. Zewail help Egypt during the past years because I seriously can't see how he helped Egypt. Oh sorry I almost forgot about his great project Zewail's city that's supposed to take Egypt to the next level. If he's so set on helping Egypt why the hell is he naming his project Zewail's city does he think that he's Egypt's next Pharoah or that he's god's gift to man kind; if you're trying to help you don't give the project your name that's just conceited and egotistical; or are you just trying to immortalize yourself. Also, for those of you who think that since science is important then consequently Zewail's City is also important wake up; the research that will be done in zewail's city will be about natural sciences not applied ones which is completely useless to a country in Egypt's current situation. And by the way does anyone know that its illegal to collect donation money for a none existent project which is exactly what Dr. Zewail is doing; I just don't know why anyone is noticing that.

To conclude the Israeli-American-Egyptian Dr. Zewail isn't fit to be Egypt's next President or Minister or an Educator; he should just do us all a favour and stay the hell inside his lab.  

If you have any information that I overlooked please tell me and I'll add it.

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