Ahmad Gamal Saad-Eddin

Writings about science, history, and the peculiar organism known as the human.

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  • History through a grain of pollen

    This piece was originally published in Nature Middle East In a small village called El-Hamoul, surrounded by the green fields of Eygpt’s Nile Delta, a young girl gathered herbs from along the irrigation canal. She arranged similar flowers in neat rows on the damp soil. “The plants that grew all year round never interested me,” recalls…

  • Regulation, Not Combat: Another Face of Immunity

    This piece was originally published in Nature Middle East. The easy, somewhat simplistic choice in describing the immune system, with all the complexity of its biological processes, is that it is: an “army” or a “line of defense.” This metaphor has gained complete dominance over time in biological science literature. It has become an easy synonym;…

  • The End of the Asylum

    The End of the Asylum

    On the strange accident that rewired the story of madness. This piece was originally Published in Almanassa.  Joel Elkes was born on November 12, 1913, and died on October 30, 2015. He changed the face of psychiatry forever. It’s impossible to speak of modern psychiatry, despite all the skepticism and suspicion that still surround it, without…