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AAUP Receives The “UNESCO” Chair For Data Sciences For Development

Wednesday, April 20, 2022

The Arab American University announced that it received the “UNESCO chair for data sciences” and chose Dr. Majdi Owda, the head of the natural, engineering, and technology sciences department, as the chair holder.

Abu Zuhri praised the efforts that all of the contributing parties have put into achieving this scientific and national achievement which consisted of the National Palestinian Committee for education, culture, and science, the Palestinian Central Statistics Organization, and the Palestinian Delegates for the UNESCO, and the Palestinian Higher Education Organizations.

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University Represents Palestine in Drassa Annual Forum of Sports Sciences at Morocco

Saturday, April 28, 2018

Dr. Saba’ Jarrar during her participation as Palestine’s representative in the Drassa Annual Forum for Sports Sciences

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.

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