Jewish Professor wins Arab Nobel Prize
Professor Ronald Levy, head of Stanford’s Oncology Department became the first Jewish person to win Saudi Arabia’s King Faisal International Prize in Medicine, which included a trip for Levy, and his Israeli wife and children to Saudi Arabia.
In spite of their fears before the trip, Levy said his family was treated to royal hospitality during their entire stay in Saudi Arabia. He said that even when people were aware of his religion and his family’s background, he was treated no different than anyone else. Also, Levy said Saudis were fascinated with hearing what he and other visitors think of their country, and if their expectations were proved wrong or not. [read more]
I wonder if Saudi scholars would visit Israel under similar circumstances?
Other prizes awarded at the King’s ceremony: Service to Islam, awarded to Principal Shari’ah Society
for Quran and Sunnah Scholars; Islamic Studies awarded to Professor Abdessalam M. Cheddadi of Morocco; Arabic Language and Literature awarded to Professor Abd Al-Aziz Nasir Al-Manie; and Science awarded to the UK’s Sir Richard Henry Friend and Russia’s Professor Rashid Alievich Sunyaev.
