An-Najah National University

An-Najah National University
Type Public
President Prof. Rami Hamdallah
Address Omar Ibn Al-Khattab St., PO Box 7, Nablus, Nablus, West Bank, Palestine
Website www.najah.edu
Entrance to the campus

An-Najah National University (Arabic: جامعة النجاح الوطنية) is a Palestinian non-governmental public university governed by a board of Trustees. It is located in Nablus, in the northern West Bank. The university has 22,000 students and 300 professors in 19 faculties. It is the largest Palestinian university.

Manifesto

It was chartered as a full-fledged university in 1977.

Timeline

1941: The institution was named An-Najah College.

Student body

Most of the students are Palestinian, but there are also students and professors from all over the world. Languages spoken on campus include Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, and Spanish.

Faculty

The university president is Professor Dr. Rami Hamdallah. The Vice-President for Academic Affairs is Professor Dr. Maher Natsheh and the Vice-President for Administration Affairs is Dr. Shaker AlBitar.

Ansam Sawalha, who is the Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy, is the first Palestinian woman named to the Women in Science Hall of Fame in 2011. Sawalha was honored for her achievement of establishing the first Poison Control and Drug Information Center in Palestine in 2006.[1][2]

Political conflicts regarding faculty

In 2010 six members of the faculty including Ghassan Khaled were arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces for being closely linked to a charity that is suspected of being a front for Hamas.[3] In 2011, Abdel Sattar Qassem, a professor of political science at the university and critic of the Palestinian leadership was arrested by the Palestinian Authority following a complaint by the university president that Qassem had written an article critical of the university administration for refusing to comply with a court order rescinding its decision to expel four students. Qassem had been targeted in the past by Palestinian security forces, and was at one point shot and wounded.[4]

Courses

Audio production facility
Sign for media center

The university has sixteen scientific faculties and humanities faculties. An-Najah offers undergraduate instruction in the fields of medicine, engineering, humanities, social sciences and the natural sciences, as well as courses of graduate study in humanities and the social sciences.

The scientific faculties include:
The Humanities Faculties include:

Cooperation and foreign exchange

The university has several partner universities. These account with their exchange students for a significant part of the foreign students at An-Najah. Another number of foreign students are drawn to An-Najah for the courses in Arabic for foreigners offered by the university.

Twinnings

There is twinning between An-Najah National University and several British student unions:

Partner universities

West Bank affiliated institutes

See also

References

  1. "Dr. Ansam Sawalha, the First Palestinian Scientist in the Women in Science Hall of Fame". An-Najah National University. 2011-05-08. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  2. "Women in Science Hall of Fame- 2011". Embassy of the United States Amman Jordan. U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 27 November 2014.
  3. "6 Faculty Members at a Palestinian University Are Arrested for Suspected Hamas Ties", Matthew Kalman, August 4, 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education.
  4. http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=235477
  5. UMSU Activist » Al Najah Right to Education Campaign Responds to Motion 1 Archived February 17, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.

External links

Coordinates: 32°13′13.34″N 35°14′40.09″E / 32.2203722°N 35.2444694°E / 32.2203722; 35.2444694

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