AlQa'dah 11, 1432, Oct 9, 2011, SPA - Jordanian scientist, academic and former Prime Minister Dr. Adnan Badran, head of the scientific committee of the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Young Arab Researchers, recognized six of the organization's 2011 award winners, which included Dr. Saeed Al-Zahrani, a KSU (King Saud University) professor of chemical engineering, who won the award for Best Young Arab Researcher in the Engineering Sciences. Among other accomplishments, Dr. Al-Zahrani was part of a team of KSU researchers that received a patent on May 17, 2011 for their 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 sugars. 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 if the entries were based on PhD 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 Sayeh Jellouli, from Algeria, according to a latest press release of KSU. --MORE
