Zahrani, professor of chemical engineering at King Saud University (KSU) recently won Abdul Hameed Shoman award for Best Young Arab Researcher in engineering sciences. Dr. Al-Zahrani was part of a team of KSU researchers that in May this year received a patent for its invention of a more effective and inexpensive method of separating glucose and fructose, which may provide great economic benefits to the pharmaceutical industry and particularly to the Kingdom's producers of dates which are rich in sugar. The five other winners come from other Arab countries. The award for medical sciences was jointly won by Professor Habib A. Dakik from the Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut (AUB), and Associate Professor Sharifa Ahmad Hamed Imran from Assiut University's Faculty of Medicine. The award for agricultural sciences went to Birzeit University's Associate Professor Jamil Younis Muhammad Harb, while Dr. Dima Jamali, Associate Professor and Chairwoman of the Management, Marketing, and Entrepreneurship Track at AUB received the award in the field of Economics, Banking and Financial and Management Sciences. The physics and geology award went to UAE University's Associate Professor of physics Dr. Ehab Muhammad Naji Obeidat, while the award for social sciences was withheld because most of the entries were based on Ph.D theses. The Award for Children's Literature was won by Iraqi playwright Fadil Abbas Al Kaaby for his piece entitled “Theater of Angels”, while the award for Literary Criticism in the Field of Children's Literature was won by Laied Al
