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The soft power of science has the potential to reshape global diplomacy.
Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.
Our femtosecond snapshots can examine a molecule at discrete instants in time.
The youth movement is aware that old visions can not take Egypt into the future.
Everybody in the world is - is ready for liberty. It's a question of how you do it.
There is little doubt that an unstable Syria will destabilize the whole Middle East.
What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people.
Investing in science education and curiosity-driven research is investing in the future.
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Salifist parties are a real force in the Egyptian society.
Despite differences of faith or even the occasional collisions between them, Egypt is united.
Egypt had the first constitution in the Middle East that allowed for liberty. And it had democracy.
The vast majority of Muslims are moderates working for a better future and seeking a peaceful life.
Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force.
Curiosity - the rover and the concept - is what science is all about: the quest to reveal the unknown.
Let me put it this way: There is nothing in Islam that is fundamentally against the quest for knowledge.
Human resources are just tremendous in Egypt, but we need the science base; we need the correct science base.
From the dawn of history, science has probed the universe of unknowns, searching for the uniting laws of nature.
I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.
America was and still is able to make the necessary changes to maintain research institutions that are the envy of the world.
A femtosecond is comparable to one second in 32 million years. It is like watching a 32-million-year movie to see one second.
The mosque was the neighbourhood house of worship, but it was also the place where my high school friends and I came to study.
It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.
I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.
As someone from, and directly involved with, this part of the world, I am convinced Arabs are qualified to regain their glorious past.
For years, the West supported Mubarak and gave aid for what it hoped was stability - but was actually stagnation - in the Middle East.
Investment in education and economic prosperity is the best way to cure fanaticism and for establishing a just peace in the Middle East.
The co-existence of religious values in the lives of individuals and secular rules in the governance of the state should be clearly defined.
Personally, I have been enriched by my experiences in Egypt and America, and feel fortunate to have been endowed with a true passion for knowledge.
In today's world, America's soft power is commonly thought to reside in the global popularity of Hollywood movies, Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Starbucks.
On the banks of the Nile, the Rosetta branch, I lived an enjoyable childhood in the City of Disuq, which is the home of the famous mosque, Sidi Ibrahim.
I think I succeeded in getting the Egyptian people excited about the importance of science, and this is the only way Egypt can get out of this dark ages.
Egypt was the first democracy in the Middle East. Women were unveiled in the 1920s. Egypt is a country of civilization, of culture. It shouldn't be suffering.
Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.
Like everywhere in the world, people of the Middle East aspire to liberty and justice. They wish to have a better life and a decent education for their children.
In the Middle East, it is clear that peace will never be reached without solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A two-state solution must be found and enforced.
The partnership between the United States and Egypt is crucial to both countries, and it can't be predicated on political manipulation and threats of withholding aid.
I discovered how science is truly a universal language, one that forges new connections among individuals and opens the mind to ideas that go far beyond the classroom.
As a cultural product of both 'East' and 'West', I do not believe there is a fundamental basis for a clash of civilisations, or that the West is the cause of all problems.
The universe at large is full of questions that we still don't know anything about, and there will be always young people, brilliant, who are going to make new discoveries.
On Sunday August 5, 2012, I was among a group of people who witnessed the Rover landing on Mars in real time at NASA's Caltech-managed Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Every effort should be made to help build the new democratic nation with reconciliation and forgiveness, for the sake of Egypt and not for the benefit of a party or a group.
As a boy, it was clear that my inclinations were toward the physical sciences. Mathematics, mechanics, and chemistry were among the fields that gave me a special satisfaction.
We must nurture creative scientists in an environment that encourages interactions and collaborations across different fields, and support research free from weighty bureaucracies.
Growing up in Egypt, I never saw the country as divided as it is today. We now have two main political groupings: the Islamist parties and the civil, or liberal, political parties.
Secularism will not work in Egypt any more than theocracy. What will work is governance that is guided by the Islamic values of the majority with protection of the minority rights.
In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.
I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.
Some consider the removal of Dr. Mohammed Morsi a coup by the army against an elected president. Others treat it as the second revolution, or the continuation of the January 25, 2011, revolution.
There is no 'master plan' on the road to the Nobel Prize. It represents a lot of hard work, a passion for that work and... being in the right place at the right time. For me, that place was Caltech.
As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.