Here is the full truth about the alleged photo about Magdi Yacoub's conversion to Islam

The rumor of Dr. Magdi Yacoub converting to Islam topped the Google search engine trend, and also the Facebook trend, as the hashtag #Magdi_Yacoub_announces_his_conversion_to_Islam topped the most searched for and several posts were published on it, becoming the most popular on the site during the past few hours.

The truth about Dr. Magdi Yacoub announcing his conversion to Islam The public circulated an alleged photo of Dr. Magdi Yacoub holding a sign with the Islamic declaration of faith written on it, but a reverse image search revealed that it was a photo of the Egyptian doctor celebrating the oldest heart transplant patient, an English policeman named David Agatt, who is 90 years old.

The real picture says on the sign "Happy Birthday David", but some people have falsified what is written and changed the sentence to "I bear witness that there is no god but God, and I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of God".

Who is Dr. Magdi Yacoub? Dr. Magdi Habib Yacoub was born on November 16, 1935, in the city of Belbeis in the Egyptian Sharqia Governorate, and belongs to a Coptic Orthodox family.

He studied medicine at Cairo University, and was educated in Chicago.

He moved to Britain in 1962 to work at the Chest Hospital in London, and then became a cardiopulmonary surgeon at Harefield Hospital from 1969 to 2001.

He then became Director of the Department of Scientific Research and Education in 1992.

He was also appointed Professor at the National Heart and Lung Institute in 1986, and has been interested in developing heart transplantation techniques since 1967.

He retired from surgery in 2001 and continued as a consultant and theorist in organ transplantation.

Titles and medals received by Magdi Yacoub Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of London

He also received titles and medals from the largest universities around the world, such as: Middlesex University (British universities), Brunel University, Loughborough University, and Cardiff University.

From Lund University in Sweden, and he has an honorary booklet at the University of Lahore in Pakistan, and the University of Siena in Italy.

Dr. Magdi Yacoub's most prominent achievements He established new centers for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, such as the Magdi Yacoub Heart Center, in various governorates of Egypt, most notably in Aswan and Cairo.

His most important achievements in the field of cell transplantation, the development of a heart valve using stem cells, is his discovery of a method that allows the use of parts of the heart that have been artificially transplanted.