Editing Ahmed Zewail (section)

==Personal life==
Zewail and his first wife, Mervat, were married in 1967, just before leaving Egypt to attend the [[University of Pennsylvania]] for his PhD. He had two daughters with Mervat, Maha and Amani. Mervat and Ahmed however, separated in 1979.<ref name="editor">{{Cite book |editor-last=El Nadi |editor-first=Lotfia |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/1112734385 |title=The brilliant Zewail |year=2019 |publisher=World Scientific Publishing Company Pte. Limited |isbn=978-981-327-583-6 |oclc=1112734385}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Aspturian |first1=Heidi |title=Interview with Ahmed Zewail (1946 - 2016) |url=https://oralhistories.library.caltech.edu/247/1/Zewail%20OHOl%20%286.5.2017%29.pdf |website=CalTech Oral Histories |publisher=California Institute of Technology |access-date=23 August 2022}}</ref>

Zewail married Dema Faham in 1989.<ref name="autobio" /> Zewail and Faham had two sons, Nabeel and Hani.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.caltech.edu/news/ahmed-zewail-1946-2016-51594|title=Ahmed Zewail, 1946–2016 {{!}} Caltech|access-date=2 August 2016|publisher=California Institute of Technology|date=2 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|doi = 10.1098/rsbm.2019.0040|title = Ahmed Hassan Zewail. 26 February 1946—2 August 2016|year = 2020|last1 = Thomas|first1 = John Meurig|journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume = 68|pages = 431–453|s2cid = 207893909|doi-access = free}}</ref>