About AARU

The Association of Arab Universities is a prominent Arab independent institution based in the capital of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Amman. Establishing the association was an initiative taken by the Cultural Administration at the Arab League State, which hosted the first two seminars in Benghazi 1961, and Beirut 1964, for people involved in the higher education field in the Arab region. Both seminars aimed at researching and analyzing the issues of the higher education sector, and sketching the framework for cooperation between Arab universities. The two venues concluded that there was a need to establish an association for Arab universities, as well as adopting the draft bill of the bylaws of the association that was approved by the committee, order No. 2056 on it’s forty second anniversary, September 30, 1964; this was followed by the establishment of the association’s Provisional General Secretarial for the year 1965.

The first meeting for the General Congress was held in September 1965, Alexandria, which witnessed a participation of no less that 23 Arab universities that transformed the Provisional Secretarial into a permanent one. Professor Murci Ahmad, the minister of higher education and CEO of the University of Cairo back then, was the first Secretary General of the association.

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