Born in Port Said, Egypt in 1950, he is a professor and former head of the surgery department at the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, specializing in liver and biliary tract surgery, laparoscopic surgery, and trauma surgery. He received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery with First Class Honors in 1974, and his Master’s degree in 1978 and Doctorate in 1981 in general surgery, both from the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University.

He is a founding member of the International Surgical Society and the International Society for Surgery of the Liver, Pancreas, and Biliary Tract in Switzerland. He has supervised and examined dozens of doctoral and master’s theses in surgery and philosophy and has published numerous research papers in the field of general surgery. He lectures on scientific thinking, the origins of civilizations, and the relationship between science, philosophy, and religion. He was chosen as the ideal teacher at Ain Shams University in 1984 and the ideal doctor at the national level in 1988, and received the Ain Shams University Shield in 2011. He is a lecturer on topics of scientific thinking, the origin of civilizations, the relationship between science and philosophy, and between religions. He is one of the leading contemporary philosophers of science and one of the most important opponents of the idea of ​​atheism.