Professor Mahmoud AbuMwais, The Arab American University President received Mr. Ziad AbuEin, the head of the wall and settlements’ resistance body, who visited the university to give a lecture to the students about the body’s role in resisting the wall and settlements. AbuEin was accompanied by the political director in Jenin colonel Taiseer A’zzam, and the head of the resistance committee for the wall and settlements Mr. Abdallah AbuRahma.
The Arab American University and Washington and Lee University have organized a pictorial court by acting a trial concerning the Palestinian and the American law. Some students at the faculty of law at the Arab American University along with the faculty of law at Washington and Lee University have done a pictorial court by doing a trail for a legal case for 90 minutes. This court was done with cooperation with the international legal institution at the West Bank at the pictorial court hall at the faculty of law Arab American University.
The Arab American University hosted General Ibrahim Ramadan, Jenin’s mayor and one of the members of the board of trustees of the university to an open discussion with students that was organized by the students’ affairs department under the auspices of Professor Mahmoud Abu Mwais to discuss some of the students issues and cases, and to know the students’ situation and their needs.
The Arab American University arranged a workshop to its students under the name of “How to earn money while still studying” The Vise president of the social affairs at the Arab American University organized a workshop under the name “How to earn money while studying” with cooperation with the institution of partners in sustainable development in Jenin, and 60 students from the Administrational and Financial Faculty attended this workshop.
The deanship of the students’ affairs at the Arab American University honored the winner students at the university championship in tennis during a ceremony for the winners that 60 students participated in, and this was organized by the sports activity department. The ceremony was attended by the dean of the student affairs Dr. Ma’n Zakarneh, the head of the sport activity department Mr.Oúdai Daraghmeh, the coach of Al-Hudhud star team and the students.
The Engineering and Information Technology Faculty at the AAUJ concluded the third Palestinian contest for programming of the year 2014, with a participation of 24 teams that are representing 9 palestinian universities who were competing to put some programming solutions for the daily life programs. The contest was held through two days under the auspicious of the American Institution ACM and IBM Company, with a local support of Dimension Company, Haseeb Al-Sabagh Center for Excellency in Information Technology and Qabatia’s municipality.
The Head of the Presidential office of the Palestinian Authority Dr. Hsain Al-A’raj said: “The managerial issues at the Palestinian Authority had developed through the years and had faced all the obstacles and challenges. It also achieved lots of managerial achievements that from them it was able to reach what the whole world witnesses of the technological and scientific development, to ease the people’s lives and enhance the strength of the Palestinian institutions that are the nucleus of the Palestinian State.”
The Arab American University made the students who applied for the sports science specialty to undergo the acceptance exam, where they were examined their fitness and their physical effort at the new international court that the University has build recently. This was after asserting their medical health when they took different medical tests. The University has recently opened the Sport Science specialty and will start teaching it at the beginning of the academic year 2014/2015
The deanship of the scientific research at the Arab American University issued its first issue of the global scientific magazine that cares in publishing the output of the scientific research in human and nature sciences in Arabic and English languages. This step comes as a continuous to the accomplishments to the University in all aspects and to enhance its role nationally as enthronement to the International and regional partnerships.
> The Arab American University honors His Excellency Mr. Maher Irshaid _the first founder and the idea owner of the Arab American University_ on the occasion of 15 years passed when first this University was established.