Association of Arab Universities
Association of Arab Universities with independent legal personality Arab institution based in Amman is the capital city of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Founded at the initiative of cultural management in the Arab League, which sponsored the convening of the first two seminars for a number of stakeholders in higher education in the Arab world in Benghazi in 1961 and the second in Beirut in 1964 to research in higher education in the Arab world problems, and technical cooperation between Arab universities frameworks. Symposia ended to recommend the establishment of the Union of Arab Universities and approve draft of a proposed system for the foundation of the Union, was adopted by the Arab League Council Resolution No. 2056 at its second session held on 30.09.1964. Followed by the establishment of the General Interim Secretariat of the Union in 1965. In September 1969 the first meeting of the General Conference of the Union held in Alexandria with the participation of 23 Arab League Foundation and turned public interim secretariat to permanent Secretariat-General of the Federation, was elected late Prof. Dr. Morsi Ahmad, Minister of Higher Education in the Arab Republic of Egypt and the president of the University of Cairo, former first secretary-general of the Union.
