Conference

The director of the conference, Dr. Muayad Abusaa, the Vice President of the Arab American University for Academic Affairs, said that more than 130 researchers in various disciplines participated in the conference, representing twenty Arab, Islamic and international countries. He indicated that the conference focused on several topics, most notably law, international relations, historical studies, Management, economics, social studies, linguistic, and literary studies.

Dr. Nizam Thiab represented the university in this meeting that was organized with the presence of presidents and representatives from 36 universities came from 12 Arab countries. The meeting was organized under the auspices of Dr. Omar Salameh- the Secretary General of the Association of Arab Universities and Dr. Fawaz Zaghloul- the Director of the Arab Council for Student’s Training.

In his opening speech for the “The Age of Populism” Conference, Prof. Ali Zeidan Abu Zuhri- the University President talked about the importance of populism especially “under the global decline of traditional democratic political forces” and he said that this conference “comes in line with AAUP’s philosophy and its future vision that is based on positive interaction with research developments in the social and natural sciences”.