Kennedy’s ‘Arabs don’t produce science’ claim meets a Nobel Prize reality check
- Egyptian law scholar Mohamed El Baradei, a diplomat and vice president of Egypt, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 alongside the International Atomic Energy Agency
- Jordanian-born Omar M. Yaghi was one of three chemists awarded the Nobel Prize in 2025, and won the 2018 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
- Yasser Arafat, the former head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994, together with former Israeli Prime Ministers Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin “for their efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East”
