Faiza al kharafi biography of nancy

Kuwaiti chemist (born 1946)

Faiza Mohammed Al-Kharafi (Arabic: فايزة الخرافي, romanized: Fāyzah al-Kharāfī; born 1946) is a Kuwaiti chemist and academic.

She was the president of Kuwait University from 1993 to 2002, and the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East.^[1] She is the vice president of the World Academy of Sciences.

Faiza al kharafi biography of nancy

Early life and education

Faiza Al-Kharafi was born to a wealthy family in Kuwait in 1946 and developed an interest in science from a young age.^[2] She attended Al Merkab High School. She received her BSc from Ain Shams University in Cairo in 1967.

She then attended Kuwait University where she founded the Corrosion and Electrochemistry Research Laboratory while in graduate school. She received her master's in 1972 and her PhD in 1975.^[3]

Career

Al-Kharafi worked in Kuwait University's Department of Chemistry from 1975 to 1981.

In 1984 she became chair of the department and s