APPOINTED TO AL-SISI’S 16 member presidential advisory body of economic and science experts at the end of last year, Zewail, is expected to play an important role in helping turn the Egyptian economy around. following years of political uncertainty. The proclaimed “father of femtochemistry” won a Nobel Prize for his work in the field in 1999, later founding the Zewail City of Science and Technology, which was involved in a land dispute with Nile University last year. Zewail was named by US president Barack Obama as one of three US science envoys to Islam in 2009 and is Linus Pauling chair professor of chemistry, professor of physics and the director of the Physical Biology Centre for the Ultrafast Science and Technology at the California Institute of Technology.