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The ‘Arch of Triumph’ in the Syrian city of Palmyra, which dates from between 193 and 211 AD (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)

Nobel Laureates Urge Action to Protect Heritage Sites

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 1, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Five Nobel prize winners called Thursday for urgent international action to protect world heritage sites from the destruction wrought by extremist groups and conflicts. In an appeal launched on the eve of an international conference in Abu Dhabi, the laureates pointed...

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Opinion: When Nobel Mixes the Genres

by Amir Taheri | Oct 21, 2016 | Opinion

Last month, Geir Lundestad, the former secretary of the Nobel Academy broke the august body’s traditional reserve to express his deepest regrets in having awarded Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008. “That was a big mistake,” Lundestad lamented. Should we...

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Three scientists win chemistry Nobel for creating ‘world’s smallest machines’. AFP

‘I’m not Very Smart,’ Nobel Winner Jokes, in Trump Jab

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 6, 2016 | World

The Scottish-born winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry took a jab Wednesday at U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has bragged that he was “smart” to avoid paying taxes. “I am not very smart. The IRS (Internal Revenue Service) will run...

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This file photo taken on September 11, 2012 shows U.S.-Egyptian Nobel prize-winning scientist Ahmed Zewail addressing members of the constitution committee at the Shura council in Cairo.

Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian Chemist Zewail Dies Aged 70

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 3, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture

Nobel prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, who served as a science and technology advisor to U.S. President Barack Obama and was the first U.S. science envoy to the Middle East, died Tuesday in the United States at the age of 70, Egypt’s...

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Opinion: Abu Yousef’s Inkwell

by Samir Atallah | Mar 26, 2016 | Opinion

The Egyptian Ministry of Education has promised to reinstate Mohamed ElBaradei’s name to the list of Nobel Prize laureates that appears in the fifth grade primary school curriculum. The ministry itself decided to remove his name from the list and taught Egypt’s...