RFK Jr is wrong about the Arab world

At a recent campaign rally in Michigan, US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr claimed that Muslim Arabs produce neither science nor literature and do not win major awards because of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence. Mahmoud Al-Hamza calls the remarks racist and readily refutable, citing Nobel laureates Naguib Mahfouz, Mohamed ElBaradei, Tawakkol Karman, Ahmed Zewail, Moungi Bawendi and Omar Yaghi. He acknowledges that the Arab world faces challenges in knowledge production, but attributes them to historical and institutional conditions, not to any inherent deficit among its people or the influence of a political group.