Faiza Al-Kharafi

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Faiza Al-Kharafi
فايزة الخرافي
Born1946 (age 77–78)
Ali Mohammed Thanian Al-Ghanim
Children5, including Marzouq Al-Ghanim
RelativesNasser Al-Kharafi (brother)
Jassem Al-Kharafi (brother)
Fawzi Al-Kharafi (brother)
Scientific career
FieldsElectrochemistry, corrosion engineering

Faiza Mohammed Al-Kharafi (

the World Academy of Sciences
.

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 served as Dean of the Faculty of Science from 1986 to 1989.

Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah issued a decree appointing Al-Kharafi as rector of the university,[5] and she became the first woman to head a major university in the Middle East.[1] Al-Kharafi helped reconstruct Kuwait University after the First Gulf War, which ended in 1991. She served as president from 1993 to 2002 where she oversaw 1,500 staff members, over 5,000 employees, and over 20,000 students.[2]

Al- Kharafi has demonstrated to be an advocate for research in Kuwait. In 1986, Al- Kharafi and her colleagues explored and compared the rich development of Kuwaiti scientific research in comparison to other nations in the third world. In her publication, Al- Kharafi was able to demonstrate the ability of Kuwait's higher education institutions to engage in relevant scientific research.[6]

Al-Kharafi has studied the impact of

crude oil, high temperature geothermal brines, and tap water. She has also studied corrosion in polluted water and metal corrosion caused by pollution. As an electrochemist, she studied the electrochemical behavior of metals and metal alloys including aluminum, copper, platinum, niobium, vanadium, cadmium, brass, cobalt, and low carbon steel.[7] She collaborated on the discovery of a class of molybdenum-based catalysts that improve gasoline octane without benzene by-products.[8]

She joined the Board of the

Alqabas
, the Kuwait-MIT Center for Natural Resources and the Environment.

Awards and honours

L'Oréal-UNESCO Award for Women in Science for her work on corrosion.[10]

Personal life

Al-Kharafi is married to Ali Mohammed Thanian Al-Ghanim and has five sons and ten grandchildren. Of her sons, Marzouq Al-Ghanim is the current speaker of Kuwait National Assembly. She spends her Summers at Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Her brothers are Jassem Al-Kharafi, former speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, and the late Nasser Al-Kharafi. She shares in the family fortune from M. A. Kharafi & Sons.[3][9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Middle Eastern Women To Watch". Forbes. 26 July 2005. Archived from the original on 26 December 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
  2. ^ a b "Dr. Faiza Al-Kharafi". ContentDM. Archived from the original on 31 January 2020. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Fayza Al Khorafi". Who's Who Amongst Arab Women. Archived from the original on 24 June 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  4. ISBN 978-0-7614-0871-0
    . Faiza Al-Kharafi sunni.
  5. ^ a b "This day of Kuwait's history". Kuwait News Agency. 5 July 2009. Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  6. S2CID 31394410
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  7. ^ "Faiza al-Kharafi". Kuwait–MIT Center. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  8. ^ "Faiza Al-Kharafi (Αφρική και Αραβικές Χώρες)". Eleftherotypia (in Greek). 3 March 2011. Archived from the original on 28 September 2013. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  9. ^ a b Farag, Talaat I. (July 2008). "Dr. Faiza Al-Khorafi, PhD". The Ambassadors Online Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 January 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2013.
  10. ^ "Outstanding women scientists to receive 2011 L'ORÉAL-UNESCO Awards (3 March) and Fellowships (2 March)". UNESCO. 25 February 2011. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 20 June 2013.

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