Dr. Saba’ Jarrar from the Department of Sports Science at the Arab American University, participated as Palestine representative in the annual Drassa Forum of sports sciences, held in Casablanca, Morocco recently in partnership with the Association of Moroccan Journalists. As a keynote speaker at a forum on “Sport as a Soft-Tool to Improve and Achieve Sustainable Development,” (Drassa: A Research and Development Academy for the UAE Sports Science Activities)
Dr. Jarrar mentioned the UN resolutions that emerged and evolved from the international organizations on sustainable development and social responsibility since 1989, embodied in the eight UN goals of the 2000 Plan. Thus developing the seventeen objectives adopted in 2015 for their 2030 Sustainable Development Plan and the United Nations role by announcing sport as a tool for community development and peacemaking through a 2016 decision that said it is a mean to achieve 2030 sustainable development goals.
The Arab American University participated in the 24th forum to exchange training offers for Arab Universities’ Students held in the Egyptian Sharm Al-Sheikh, under the auspices of Zagazig University and in presence of representatives of 60 universities from a number of Arab countries.
“The Arab American University received several training offers from Arab Universities in various specialization. Likewise, it presented several training opportunities for students of other universities, where the trainings take place at the host country’s companies, institutions and universities”, said the VP for Training and Community Services Affairs Dr. Nizam Daib who represented the university in the forum.
The Dean of the Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences at the University Prof. Dr. Aysar Sussan participated in the Global Management Initiatives Forum that was held recently in Ramallah in presence of professors and graduates from the University of Kellogg forGraduate Studies in Management.
Sussan talked about the Arab American University achievements in general and the Faculty of Administrative and Financial Sciences in particular. Pointing to the offered specializations by the University's Faculty of Graduate Studies in Ramallah campus, especially the MBA in cooperation with Indiana University in Pennsylvania and Business Administration PhD in collaboration with the same university, the first of its kind in Palestine.