honors 16 Arab researchers, including 5 Egyptians
The Jordanian Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation honored 16 Arab researchers this evening, Saturday. Among them are 5 Egyptian researchers who won the Foundation Prize for the year 2015, for the level and abundance of their scientific and research production in the award''s six fields: medical and health sciences - engineering sciences - basic sciences - arts, humanities, social and educational sciences - technological and agricultural sciences - economic and administrative sciences.
This came during the distribution ceremony for the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers for the year 2015 in its 34th session, which was held by the Foundation this evening in the capital Amman, where the award shield was handed over to the 16 Arab researchers (7 Jordanian researchers, 5 Egyptians, two Lebanese, a Palestinian researcher and another Saudi).
The CEO of the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation, Valentina Kassisieh, stressed in her speech to the ceremony that scientific research is a fundamental pillar of the culture and economy of countries and a pillar for their development, achieving the well-being of their people and raising their international status, noting that the 16 researchers who received the award today defied the circumstances and exerted a lot to devote scientific research to the service of our societies. Their research has an impact on a scientific and societal level, so they distinguished, influenced, and added to the march of our renaissance.
She stressed the importance of the existence, creation and strengthening of mechanisms and channels for transforming the juicers of minds into application and action, and the concerted efforts of the public and private sectors to direct research to be related to practical and applied aspects that could result in innovations and economic and development projects.
She said that the foundations of an innovative and productive society can only be completed by creating a stimulating environment that is more broad for thinking, research, diligence and innovation, and works to discover the talents inherent in society and push them towards more creativity and innovation, stressing the importance of spreading the culture of research and development in society in all its categories, and developing innovation and leadership in children Since childhood.
Dr. Fawzan bin Sami bin Sulayem Al-Kuraia, who won the Medical and Health Sciences Award, on the research of genetic variants, ailments and disease susceptibility to newborns, gave the winners'' speech in which he said that our Arab nation was too late to catch up with the modern scientific revolution, and I do not find justification to remind you of the shameful figures it publishes. The specialized international bodies annually to evaluate scientific and research production, if recognition of the problem is the first step, then diagnosing it and working to treat it should be the concern of everyone who cares about the advancement and renaissance of the Arab nation.
He added, I speak on my own behalf and on behalf of my fellow winners, and I extend my sincere thanks to the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation for its keenness to continue this award, which reminds us of the Arab League that makes us proud when we see an honorable achievement by an Arab researcher from any Arab country.
Al-Kuraia - a Saudi national - called the award committee to work on showing the winners on the award site with the appearance of role models that sharpen the motivation of our Arab youth.
The Egyptian researchers who won the award are (the first): Prof. Dr. Sabri Muhammad Nasim Shaheen at Kafr El Sheikh University, and he won the Technological and Agricultural Sciences Prize: Methods and Methods of Reclamation of Agricultural Land, and he was awarded the prize for the abundance of his scientific production in internationally indexed international journals with a strong influence factor, and his communication with institutions International technical support, and winning local and regional awards.
As for the second winner, Professor Muhammad Ali Farag, at Cairo University, won the Medicinal and Health Sciences Award: Medicinal Plants Extracts and Their Uses, equally with Professor Fatima Alki Ayoub Afifi of Jordanian nationality at the University of Jordan, due to the global tint of their scientific production published in international scientific journals refereed and diversified Research in the field of medicinal plants, and the identification of many of these plants by modern means of science, and the number of times of reference to their research and the positive impact factor, and their obtaining scientific awards and their participation in several research projects around the world.
The third winner is Prof. Ahmed Tawfiq Ibrahim Al-Mitwali, from the Egyptian-Japanese University of Science and Technology, and he won the Basic Science Prize: Waste Treatment, equally with Professor Hani Ahmed Muhammad Abu Qudis - Jordanian - from the Jordan University of Science and Technology. He was awarded the prize for the global quality of his research and its high impact factor.
As for the fourth and fifth winners, namely: Prof. Dr. Abu Al-Ela Atifi Hassanein Ali, from Cairo University, and Dr. Ahmed Gomaa Ahmed Radwan, Associate Professor at Nile University and Cairo University, they received the Basic Sciences Award: Information and Data Security equally between them, in recognition of the abundance and excellence of their scientific production The publication in the field of information security.
The Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers, launched by the Foundation in 1982, is given in recognition of distinguished scientific production whose publication and circulation leads to an increase in scientific and applied knowledge and awareness of the culture of scientific research, and contributes to solving priority problems locally, regionally and globally. Since its inception, the award has won 401 winners from various universities and scientific institutions in the Arab world. 194 candidates applied for the award cycle for the year 2015, among whom 16 professors and researchers won.
The fields of the award are (medical and health sciences - engineering sciences - basic sciences - arts, human, social and educational sciences - technological and agricultural sciences - economic and administrative sciences). It consists of a certificate that includes the name of the award, the name of the winner and the field he won, in addition to a monetary reward of $ 20,000, and a shield bearing the award’s name and logo.
