text: Zewail was bestowed honorary degrees by the following institutions: 
  University of Oxford, UK (1991); 
  The American University in Cairo, Egypt (1993);
  Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, Belgium (1997);
  University of Pennsylvania, US (1997);
  University of Lausanne, Switzerland (1997);
  Swinburne University of Technology, Australia (1999);
  Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport, Egypt (1999);
  D.Sc. Alexandria University, Egypt (1999); 
  D.Sc. University of New Brunswick, Canada (2000); 
  Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (2000);
  University of Liège, Belgium (2000);
  Heriot-Watt University, Scotland (2002);
  Lund University, Sweden (2003);
  Cambridge University (2006); 
  Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (2008); 
  University of Jordan, Jordan (2009); 
  University of Glasgow, Scotland (2011); 
  Yale University, US (2014).