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Higher Council for Youth & Sports and AAUJ Signs MoU to Develop Palestinian Sports

Saturday, December 9, 2017

Jibril Rajoub, Major General of the Higher Council for Youth and Sports, and Prof. Dr. Ali Zeidan Abu Zuhri, Arab American University President, signed two MoUs to improve the Palestinian Sports in several fields and qualifying the sports’ working staffs.

From the Two MoUs Signing

The two MOUs were signed at the university Ramallah campus in presence of Dr. Waleed Deeb University Board of Directors Academic Advisor and university founding president, Dr. Saba’ Jarar a lecturer at the University Department of Sports Science and Chairman of the Palestinian Federation for Sports Culture.

Maj. Gen. Jibril Rajoub appreciated the role of the Arab American University represented by its president Prof. Dr. Abu Zuhri, and its cooperation in organizing and hosting many sports activities, conferences and workshops. Expressing his admiration of international infrastructure that was built inside the university in Jenin, hosting many sports events including the Palestinian football team official matches.

As for Prof. Dr. Abu Zuhri, he stressed that the two MoUs are for developing university and Palestinian sports. He also thanked Maj. Gen. Rajoub for his great efforts in taking Palestinian sport to international forums, raising Palestine’s flag in various parts of the world and spreading competition spirit among Palestinian teams in various sports.

The MoUs include several things to develop the sports in Palestine, such as cooperation in training and qualifying the working staff in sports by facilitating their enrollment in the university’s academic programs at all levels and cooperate in programs enabling Palestinian youth to help developing National sport and youth movements through programs to prepare leaders, age group from 16-25 years. In addition to forming universities teams and support to be effective in national sport, through forming Arab American University and sports academies team. All of which opens partnerships horizons between the university and national and international clubs to develop training experiences, competitive skills, and support the sports system by enabling them to use technology and quality to develop administrative and technical work and keep pace with the great progress in the used sports technology.