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SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
EGYPT
el naggar, zaghloul
El Naggar is an important Egyptian geologist and scholar writing and speaking on science and
the Qur’an. He is a fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences, and is well respected by the global
scientific community for his work on geology. He has published close to 200 academic scholarly
articles and scientific studies. He also works for the Arab Development Institute.
IRAN
aghazadeh, gholam reza
Gholam Reza Aghazadeh has been the vice president of the Atomic Energy Organization in Iran
since 1997 and is now president of the organization, which is responsible for all nuclear energy
operations in the country. He has held various top positions in the post-revolution Iranian
government, including minister of petroleum. Nuclear technology has become a national goal in
Iran.
gholshani, dr mehdi
Mehdi Golshani is a professor of physics and founding chairman of the Faculty of Philosophy of
Science at Sharif University of Technology. He has written extensively on Islamic science, arguing
for its relevance in the modern world.
KUWAIT
al shamlan, prof. dr ali abdullah
Al Shamlan, a geologist by education, is the director general of the Kuwait Foundation for the
Advancement of Sciences, dean of the Faculty of Science at Kuwait University, and vice president
of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World. He served as the minister of higher education
from 1988-1992.
SYRIA
dayeh, kawkab al sabah mohammad jamil
Kawkab al Sabah Mohammad Jamil Dayeh, deputy minister of health and director of the Bureau of
Health, Environment and Population for the General Union of Women, is Syria’s newly appointed
minister of state for environmental affairs, a position left vacant for the past five years.
ASIA
INDIA
kalam, his excellency dr a p j abdul
An engineer by profession, Dr A P J Abdul Kalam is a former president of India. Before
becoming president, Kalam was the Scientific Adviser to the Defense Minister and Secretary of
India's Defense Research and Development Organization from 1992 to 1999, during which he
led the weaponization of strategic missile systems and nuclear testing in collaboration with the
Department of Atomic Energy. This moved India from being a state with nuclear technology to a
state with nuclear weapons. He is also author of India 2020, which presents his vision of an Indian
superpower by the year 2020.