Mustafa Abu Sneineh

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‘I was motivated by solving problems the world didn’t care about,’ first Saudi Nobel laureate Omar M. Yaghi tells Arab News

Yaghi became the first Saudi national to win a Nobel Prize, sharing the 2025 Chemistry award for work on metal-organic frameworks
Prior to gaining US and Saudi citizenship, he grew up in a Palestinian refugee camp, where water scarcity and hardship shaped his early life

By Mustafa Abu Sneineh · 17 December 2025