Meet 7 Middle Easterners who won the Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize is internationally recognized as the most prestigious award in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, peace and economic sciences, shooting its honorable laureates into international stardom, even if they were already celebrated and well-respected.

Middle Easterners and Arabs have earned their share of the prestigious honor, and while the nominations for the Nobel Prize are always kept secret as per the Nobel committee's tradition, there has been speculation about the 2015 Arab nominations. .

According to Daily News Egypt, Nader Soliman, founder of the Christian Youth Movement, has called for Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah Al Sisi to be awarded the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize for his role in promoting the renewal of religious discourse.

The Cairo Post has also reported that an organization has nominated the Egyptian president. In addition, several reports have claimed that the famous Saudi blogger and writer Raid Badawi has been nominated for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize.

With the 2015 Nobel Prize winners being announced next month, we take a look at 7 Middle Eastern men and women who could soon be joined by the 2015 nominees.

Sadat was Egypt's third president who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 along with Menachem Begin for his role in the Egypt-Israeli Peace Treaty which the Nobel committee saw as a massive contribution to peace in the Middle East. He was the first Muslim and Egyptian to win the prize.

Mahfouz was one of Egypt's most prominent writers and novelists who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988 for his magnum opus the "Cairo Trilogy".

Arafat was one of the most famous Palestinian leaders and the first president of the Palestinian National Authority, he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 along with Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin for their work on the Oslo Accords which the Nobel committee saw as an effort to promote peace in the Middle East.

Zewail is one of Egypt's most prominent 21st century scientists and one of its most famous of all time, he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on femtochemistry.

Ebadi is an Iranian lawyer, former judge and pioneering advocate for women and children's rights in Iran, she won the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts for women, children and refugee's rights. She was the first Iranian and the first Muslim woman to receive the prize.

ElBaradei is an Egyptian diplomat and former vice president of Egypt who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 along with the International Atomic Energy Agency, for which he previously served as Director General, for their joint efforts in promoting peaceful use of nuclear energy.

Pamuk is one of Turkey's most prominent novelists and writers and has sold more 11 million books in 60 languages. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2006 for his influential novels. He is the first and only Turk to receive the award and he become Sweden's best-selling recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature.