7 March

This is Omar Yaghi. You may have seen hm in the news recently, he won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He invented a technology using Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) that will pull moisture out of air, even in deserts, generating up to 1000 litres of clean drinking water a day. Solar-powered devices that are completely off-grid. Omar’s parents were refugees. The family of 12 lived in a one-room home, with no running water. His parents were mostly illiterate. Omar is the sort of person the anti-immigration crowd would ship off to an island somewhere to rot. (Disclaimer: I’m the child of an immigrant. Without immigration I wouldn’t exist.)