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Mansour, Ahmad Mansour Egypt         Dr. Ahmad Mansour is a lecturer at Genetic department ,Agricultural Genetic engineering branch, Faculty of Agriculture, Zagazig University, Egypt. He received his B.Sc. in Genetics and Agricultural Genetic engineering in 1996 , M.Sc. in Molecular Genetics in 2000, and the Ph.D. 2005 in Plant Signal transduction after two years full of experimental work at Mcgill Unversity , Montréal QC, CANADA, from Faculty of agriculture, Zagazig University, Egypt. He was a Visiting Scholar 2002- 2004 at McGill University, Department of biology, Molecular biology lab, Montréal, CANADA.. He was Executive member in the working group of (Research and Scholastic Activities) in the Internal Quality Assurance System (IQAS) Project, Institute of efficient productivity, Zagazig University, Egypt. Project 2004-2005 & he is currently the Executive committee member in cultural affairs and scientific mission project (CASMP) for developing cultural affairs and scientific mission sectors in the Egyptian ministry of higher education (MOHE).He is also a member of The Egyptian society of Biotechnology and environmental sciences, Egypt 2006-2007, The Egyptian society of genetics, Egypt 1997-2006, The Egyptian society Experimental biology 2005-2006 and The Canadian Society of Plant Physiologists, Canada 2002-2004. He was awarded several academic awards. He has delivered many presentations in official meetings & conferences. He has several publications. Abstract The Scientific research problems in Arab World: Myths and Reality The lagging of the Scientific research in the Arab world (specially Egypt) is caused by some issues that have to be tackled and addressed properly in order to solve them. Meanwhile, opinions are mixed among the scientific community members about the real causes of these problems. Thus, the true causes of this lagging are mixed with the false ones and resulting in a lot of difficulties which hinder solving them. After gathering a lot of information from some young Egyptian scientists about the problems they encounter in conducting their scientific research, it was clear that some of their problems are real problems that need to be addressed and fixed properly. At the same time, there are some other problems they used to claim for a long time until they believed it and became true myths. The following ten points summarized all their claims which could be described as myths or reality. The shortage of the research facilities. The limitation of the time dedicated for scientific research. The lack of funding agencies. The lack of cooperation between the scientific research and the community . The lack of appreciation for scientific research and scientists from the community. The broken linkage between the community problems and scientific research. The shortage of the well equipped libraries and Academic references. The lack of sufficient international cooperation. The Copy-rights issues of the scientific research. Inefficient system for the evaluation and rewarding for the distinct scientists. After conducting some in depth studies on these claims, it seemed that both the true and false claims were mixed together resulting in a lot of confusions in the scientific community. The previously mentioned claims need to be re-evaluated and re-addressed for further analysis to extract the core problems to fix it.