A memoir · translated from the Arabic
Remnants of
Yesterday
Tracing the Footprints Between Science and Politics
“My journey was never a straight line drawn with the ruler of precise calculations, but rather an eternal struggle and anxiety between two contradictory worlds: the world of the laboratory where absolute precision prevails… and the world of politics where gray dominates the scene.”
— from the Author’s Introduction
The Stations of a Life
From the alleys of Karrada to the laboratories of Birmingham and Dublin — eight stations on the road between the Tigris and the Thames.
The Author
Mohamed Al‑Rubeai is Emeritus Professor of Biochemical Engineering at University College Dublin and president of the Network of Iraqi Scientists Abroad (NISA). He is considered the first to discover programmed cell death in cultured cells, and one of the founding fathers of the biopharmaceutical industry in the United Kingdom — with more than 500 research papers, book chapters and patents, the Donald Medal, and an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland.
In these memoirs he opens a “notebook of memories”: an academic divided between the research rooms of Birmingham and Dublin and the corridors of the Iraqi opposition in exile — and, after 2003, a witness to the dream of rebuilding Iraq and its breaking.
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Voices
“The founding father of the biopharmaceutical industry in the United Kingdom, and the catalyst for its development in Ireland.”
“The book engages the reader to the point that once they begin reading, they wish not to put it down until they finish.”
“A living testimony to an important personality who worked with complete sincerity and professionalism for the advancement of higher education.”