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Palestine scholar wins 2013 King Faisal Award
Tuesday January 29, 2013 08:15:59 PM,
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Riyadh:
Sheikh Raed Salah Mahajneh of Palestine has won the King Faisal
International Prize in the service of Islam.
The winners of the prize were announced at a ceremony held on
Monday night.
Makkah Governor Prince Khaled Al-Faisal,
who is also director general of King Faisal International
Foundation and the Chairman of the Prize's Committee, here on
Monday night was present in the ceremony, the Saudi Press Agency
reported.
The Secretary General of King Faisal International Prize Dr.
Abdullah bin Saleh Al-Othaimeen announced the winners of this
year's prize in its 5 branches.
The Prize for Islamic Studies was
withheld.
The Prize for Arabic language and
its literature was won by Arabic Language Academy in Cairo, Egypt.
The Prize for medicine ( genetic
factors of obesity) bagged jointly by Dr. Jeffrey Michael
Friedmann and Dr. Douglas Leonard Coleman of the United States of
America.
The Prize for science (physics) was
jointly won by Dr. Paul Bruce Corkum of Canada and Dr. Ferenc
Krausz from Austria.
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