Hassan, im a professor at Queens University in canada uh, i originally from egypt and uh my area of research is software engineering, in particular the use of data and ai to automate and help Software Developers improve of the quality of Software System and improve their efficiency. And professor, could you explain it a little bit uh to our viewers, what exactly uh is that . So the simplest thing you can think about it, today when you go to a. An online store and you buy something then the store would say oh you bought this people who bought this 99 of the time bought that other thing as well okay so that relation is basically derived by mining a lot of data from lot of customers that have you bought a product well we could take the same idea and look at Software Developers that are changing lot of code over the years and we could tell developers oh you know people who changed this file tend to change this file and you know if you mis changing this file that will cause lot of problems in your Software System so you change that. Great, and the final question is about the mustafa prize itself, um, as allora it, how do you see mustafa prize . Because they call it the muslim nobel. What do you think about it . Whats your assessment . So, you know, it it first is a great honor to win this prize. Right, and its a very humbling experience, looking at prior orreats and their accomplishments and realizing as well that uh, lot of the laureates that have won the. Mustafa prize keep on continuing to actually do awesome things right, was sometimes some of the prizes are more like you know lifelong achievements and thats it, the expectations of the winner not to continue, so thats one thing that i think is very unique about the mustafa prize, the other thing as well that i find is very unique about it, is its you know ideals and its mission, right . Its to really highlight you know muslim researchers and as well highlight the impact and push the impact on muslim nations and muslim researchers. On the whole in the world as a whole um theres a lot of good talent and lot of Good Research happening in the muslim world and as well by muslim reach outside of the world and having the musa prize along was a step program was it and along the initiatives around it is really a great way to push everything thats happening to the next level so thats another very strong thing thats very unique about the mustafa price thank you so much that was professor ahmad hasan uh one of the laureates of this years mustapha. Surprise, now we move to our next item. In the final episode of our special. Coverage program of the fifth edition of the mustapha prize, we are hosting the laureates of this of years event and now we are joined by one of the winners of this years event uh professor of samya huri uh from lebanon i say hello to you uh could you please introduce yourself to our viewers and uh tell us uh your area of expertise and in what field you have managed to win the award. I a professor. Of neurology and immunology at the American University of beirout and i am working specifically on the disease multiple sclerosis, which we say ms, and in this disease, this is the disease that affects young people mostly, and its a chronic disease, so they have to live with it, so my work basically started with. Trying to understand how the disease happens, why, how the immune system attacks the nervous system, and then trying to figure out the ways to suppress the immune system. And how can we control the disease activity um and also because i started the First Comprehensive ms center in the region when i came back from harvard to lebanon in 2011 so i established a center for ms which wasnt there and uh we now have more than 3000 patients being followed in the center and thats great and and um the next question i want to ask you is uh that um when it comes to cure curing a mass um uh do you think that in near future we will find the solution that these patients that you say its a chronic disease can we find a no definite solution for it so that they not need to live with ms anymore uh you know ever since i start. Working in ms, every time people ask the same question, we say within the next 10 years, so its uh, but i think its probably getting close, because now we have some medications where you can take them for a short period of time and then you can be controlled for many, many years and there is some trials now trying to figure out a way to vaccinate people against against ms, not particularly against ms, but against virus that. That is very risky for increases risk of ms. Thank you so much, professor from lebanon. Mr. Ahmad fauzi ismail, as you told me before, this is not your first time in iran, so tell me about first your experience in iron this time in the city of isfan, yeah, even though i this is my eight time in iran, but the First Time Ever in isfahan, the First Impression was, wow, exactly, its totally different, the architecture is different. Even i have seen this kind of architecture, probably the isfahan people uh Work Together with our younow people in malaysia they they decorate one of the tallest building, one of tallest tower in malaysia ive seen similar, similarity, so this is something that very rare, your first time and hotel also marvelous, great, amazing uh hotel. And i was informing this hotel is not not 100 years, not 200 years, not 300 years, but 400 years, yeah, thats amazing, it is amazing, it is, it is, okay, and mr. Um, ismail, um, please tell us uh about yourself a little bit, your area of expertise, yeah, i my first degree is actually in petroleum engineering, mhm. And then i changed my interest into Chemical Engineering and my my phd also in Chemical Engineering during that time when i did my masters and phd, i found something very interesting, im developing Membrane Technology doing my my master to separate toxic gas like uh Carbon Dioxide co2 from methane or natural gas. Interesting and then i read many other manuscript that wow member also can be developed to solve the basic need the mankind that is water, exactly, so that one after my phd, but during my masters and ph. D study, the interesting thing that i would like to share is me and my late professor found out or discovered. About four verses in the quran, the holy quran stated about Membrane Technology, arrahman versus 18 to 20 and alfurqan versus number 53, so in the quran mentioned that there is two different type of water, the mixed. The meat, but they did not mingle, yeah, because of did not transgress mingle because of the barrier, the salties water and okay, because of the barrier, that barrier, the modern sign called membrane, and when during my study, i did not produce a good result, so i pray to allah in my lab, laboratory, for some reason allah gave me some idea to include sodium chloride or salt into my recipe to make the polymer solution, and after that subhanallah, allah gave me an idea, i made the membrane, the membrane that i produced at that time. The result was three to four times better than the commercially available membrane those days. Its one of the reason that i strongly believe insyaallah those discovered thing and i encourage scientist or whoever read the quran, not only read to know but read to understand and insyaallah you can find develop something that i have experienced before and that drive me from that point of time. Until today, alhamdulillah, im here now, great, and the final question i want to ask you is about the mustafa prize itself, how do you find it, and um, one of the goals the mustafa prize is to connect muslim um, scientists, researchers in order to increase their collaboration, so do you think that the mustafa price is successful, has been successful . Uh in achieving and realizing this goal, my very short, and sharp answer, definitely yes, mustafa fris, the name itself, muhammad al mustafa, the chosen one, that name as well is the best ever name being established, develop in the world, mhm. Because it related to, related, im not mean, related to our profit, peace be open, what does it mean, it mean that when i see read through previous recipient, the laureats, the different between mustafa prize among other prices, mustapha price take into consideration, i think one of those days the. As my opinion i mentioned this written mustafa prize different from other prizes such as nobel cuuse they call this mustafa the muslim nobel the muslim nobel because they incorporated the element of basic Sciences Applied sciences and commercial commercial ability of the technology or the product or whatever the laureal has. Develop, invented and produced, you dont need to wait until the next 10 years, five years or 20 years to commercialize this thing, but mustafa prize given this recognition, alhamdulillah, masyaallah to the laureat, exactly, and some of the load i have gone through, i have generated, produced ten of pattern, i commercialized the product, meaning that man mankind human being not only in the muslim world but worldwide benefited from the mustafa prize laurets. Thats in my humble opinion. I dont care whether you like it or not. If you dont like it, thats your problem. I just want to say that this is the the different, the genuinely different between mustapha prine. Science technology and other prices that establish in the world. Thank you so much, mr. Ahmad fauzy ismile from malaysia. Thank you. The next guest joining us is professor murat oyssal and uh i welcome you to the show uh professor please introduce yourself to our viewers and tell us about your work. Thank you so much, i a professor of Electrical Engineering at the New York University in abu dhabi, i am also affiliated with the ozzy university in turkey. I am the founding director of the center of excellence in optical wireless communication technologies. My expertise is in the area of wireless communication, but we actually kind of challenge the traditional thinking in our. Research that associate wireless communication with the radio frequencies in our research we actually explore how we can efficiently utilize optical bands including visible light in infrared so that we will be able to actually the boost the data rate capacity and so that we will be able to satisfy the demands of the next Generation Communication Networks great and professor tell us about the impact your your work can have. On the uh you know development of muslim countries. Actually what we are trying to do here uh we actually uh somehow try to think outside the box and to come up with the some solutions which will be actually positioned as a complementary or alternative solution to the conventional wireless systems operating at the radio frequencies. So just imagine that in the future you will be able to access the internet through the led light bulbs in your homes and offices. So would be amazing, exactly, so you will not have actually any of the current problems with the wifi and you will be able to have very high capacity Internet Access and similarly in another Research Area we are exploring is the where we are using the laser transmiters so when we use laser this will be actually like fiber optic replacement so it can be used in the terrestrial links for the cell back walling or for the satellite communication inter satellite communication so actually the opportunities are kind of endless and these will be of course uh not about how we transmit the data, you know the communication is about like uh connecting to people right uh so with our developments hopefully we will be able to actually provide also uh opportunities to the unders communities because in the developed countries mean they have already like very advanced fiber optic infrastructure telecommunication infrastructure however if you go to the un uh developing countries or the other parts of the world, it is not the same story, so hopefully our solutions will be also helpful for those people. Well, thats a bright idea that hope will soon bear fruit. Thank you so much, professor murat oys, one of the other laureates of the fifth edition of the mustafa prize. The next interview is joined us right now is a professorid. Okay, professor, please introduce yourself to our viewers and tell us a little bit about your area of expertise. My name is omi faratsad, um, im iranian, i was born in tehran, um, i reside in us, um, uh, i was a professor at Harvard Medical School for a long time, uh, more recently, uh, i serve as uh, founder and ceo of a company sear, which originated from my academic lab, um, where i took some time off to operate the company, the company is work in Companies Based in san francisco, my area of expertise uh, and area of research has been focused on um application of nanotechnologies for medical application uh developing range of nanopardical technologies for treatments of cancers um vaccines and more recently as Research Tools uh for the field of proteopics perfect and professor um nanotechnology um how do you see uh nanotechnology in iran . Do you think that iranians um are lets say advanced in this technology or no, there is a long way, the distance between us and western countries, its too much, um, remember nanotechnology is very broad, so i can only comment on areas of nanotechnology that applies to my own area of expertise, which is really application of nanotech for medical purposes, medical purposes, um, and in that regards i would say that. That iran is actually quite advanced, in fact if you if you look at the uh the rankings and the reports um several years ago, which was the last time i looked at it, iran ranked seven in the world in the area of nanatech, today actually i i learned earlier that the ranking is now moved to the fourth in the world, which i think is a is a phenomenal success, and and frankly as as someone of an iranian descent, im quite proud of that, especially given all the. The constraints that scientist in iran has and has to work with in executing whatever the Scientific Mission is, so recognizing being fourth the world in any discipline, i think is something to be quite proud of, and the fact that its in my own area of science and expertise, it makes me quite proud as well, perfect, thank you, and uh, the next question is about the mustafa prize itself, um, what do you think about the mustafa prize, because its often referred to as the muslim nobel, okay, um, are these two the nobel prize and the mustafa prize, can we compare them . The way i see it is that mustafa prize is a. Among um uh the very very top scientific prizes, certainly by monetary value of the price, and its given to muslims, but lets keep in mind that that is 1 4th of the world, so yes it kind of narrows down the funnel, but it doesnt narrow it by lot, it narrows it to a quarter the world population, now the question is is the prize recognized widely . Uh, not just by the muslim community, but but by the broader scientific community, as something of that caliber. I hope that that it does that, and i say that because i think the the the the establishment of this prize frankly shows an enormous amount of forsight, um, in celebrating science, um, and its important to celebrate. Science among muslims, because some of the most seminal contributions in in in literature, in physics, in mathematics in science originated from scientists of muslim descent, and i think perhaps productivity in that segment of the world hasnt been as deep and rich as it was earlier, and so reigniting that energy in the in in that community i think is important. Um, and just like we celebrate great athletes, um, we celebrate fantastic artists who are actors and actresses. I think celebrating science and scientists energizes a scientific community, and so i think mustapha prize is taking a very important step in the right direction in recognizing the work of the muslim scientists across the world. Thank you, and the final question is about the impact, the. Uh an event such as like mustapha prize can have because as a person with iranian descent im talking about the iranian youth. What impact could event like the mustapha prize have have on the iranian youth or the muslim youth . Its a really good question and im going to answer it in two steps if you dont mind. No problem. The first part of it is that anytime uh you celebrate um uh an achievement uh, you inspire others to want to get to that point. So when you recognize a senior investigator, Senior Scientist in whatever discipline, i think its a reasonable assumption that the younger scientists in that discipline would be energized by that, definitely um, and so i think its going to have a tremendously positive impact on the young scientist viewpoint of their. Field of discipline, so thats the first part of it, but let me share with you um my own personal view of this, and and how do i want to contribute in addressing it . Mustapha prize is something that im enormously proud of, because it really recognizes the work that so many great people did in my lab, um, and frankly, i celebrate this prize with all of them, i think its a recognize recognition of their work, what that prize . Symbolizes uh that matters to me so much more than the actual monetary value the prize and so one of the decisions i made and and i shared that decision um uh with the uh with the organizers and with the mustafa Price Foundation was i requested to in fact take the prize money that was was intended to be awarded to me and to create an endowment with it um and the purpose of the endowment is to create Young Investigator uh mustapha prize, that would be given in parallel to the mustapha prize to a Senior Scientist, so so my hope and expectation is that maybe as early as the next cycle, not only are we going to be celebrating uh other laurias in other fields, but were also going to be celebrating a superstar, young, brilliant mind, that may very well go up to actually win the nobel prize, but were going to recognize that person with Young Investigator, early career mustafa prize, and im so incredibly honored. And proud an