An-Najah National University
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| Established | 1977 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Prof. Rami Hamdallah |
| Dean | Mr. Bilal Salameh |
| Faculty | 402 |
| Staff | 465 |
| Students | 10,200 |
| Location | Nablus, West Bank,, Palestinian National Authority |
| Address | Omar Ibn Al-Khattab St., PO Box 7, Nablus |
| Telephone | +972-9-2394960 |
| Campus | Urban |
An-Najah National University is a private university located in the mountainous region of northern Palestine in and around the city of Nablus. The university has over 10,000 students and 300 professors. It is the largest, oldest, and most prestigious university in Palestine.
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[edit] History
An-Najah traces its roots to 1918, when it was founded as the An-Najah Nabulsi School. It became An-Najah College in 1941 and a two-year community college in 1963. It was upgraded to An-Najah National University in 1977, starting with two colleges: the College of Arts and the College of Science.
In 1988, during the First Intifada, the campus was declared a "closed military area" by Israel and did not reopen until 1991.
It has grown rapidly in recent years with many former students becoming professors after completing their PhD’s.
[edit] Student body
Many of the students are native to Palestine, but there are also students and professors from all over the world. A variety of languages are spoken on campus, including English, Hebrew, French, Spanish, and Arabic.
[edit] Faculty
The University president is Professor Dr. Rami Hamdallah. The Vice-President for Academic Affairs is Professor Dr. Maher Natsheh (Mau tsi tong) and the Vice-President for Administration Affairs is Dr. Mohammad Hannon.
[edit] Courses taught
The University has sixteen Scientific Faculties and Humanities Faculties.
- The Scientific Faculties are:
- Faculty of Science
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Agriculture
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
- Faculty of Information Technology
- Faculty of Human Medicine
- Faculty of Optometry
- Faculty of Nursing
- The Humanities Faculties are:
- Faculty of Arts
- Faculty of Islamic Law (Shari'a)
- Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences
- Faculty of Educational Sciences
- Faculty of Fine Arts
- Faculty of Law
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- Faculty of Graduate Studies.
[edit] Cooperation and Foreign Exchange
The university of An-Najah 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.
Partner unversities are:
- Fachhochschule Darmstadt (University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt), Darmstadt, Germany
[edit] Controversy
After the Sbarro restaurant massacre students at the university created an exhibition celebrating the massacre.[1][2] The exhibit’s main attraction was a room-sized re-enactment of the bombing at Sbarro. The installation featured broken furniture splattered with fake blood and human body parts as well as an idolized portrait of the suicide bomber holding a Koran and an automatic rifle. Also featured in the exhibition is a room with mannequins dressed as suicide bombers carrying automatic rifles in one hand and the Koran in the other, and aside another mannequin dressed up to resemble an Orthodox Jew with a taped voice invoking the guest with a citation from the Hadeeth of prophet Mohammad about the last battle in the end of the world to go and kill Jews: "O believer, there is a Jewish man behind me. Come and kill him.". The entrance to the exhibition was illustrated with a mural depicting the bombing.
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[edit] Notes
- ^ "Gruesome exhibit marks anniversary of uprising", The Associated Press, September 24, 2001. Retrieved on August 9, 2006.
- ^ "An Exhibit on Campus Celebrates Grisly Deed", The New York Times, September 25, 2001. Retrieved on August 9, 2006.
