Hayat Sindi — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Hayat Sindi (born 6 November 1967 in Mecca), the Saudi biotechnologist who in 2001 became the first Saudi woman to earn a PhD in biotechnology from the University of Cambridge, one of the first women appointed to Saudi Arabia's Consultative Assembly in 2013 and a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador since 2012; it records that she wears the traditional Muslim headscarf and was pressured at university to abandon her religious beliefs, which she refused to do.