Al-Azhar University – Gaza
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Al-Azhar University – Gaza (Arabic: جامعة الأزهر بغزة), often abbreviated AUG, is a Palestinian, public, non-profit, and independent higher education institution. During the first intifada, Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat issued a decree in September 1991 to establish a Palestinian national university. AUG opened on 18 October 1991 in a two-story building with 725 students enrolled in two faculties; the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Sharia and Law (now the Faculty of Law).[5]
For the university of the same name in Egypt, see Al Azhar University.
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Type | Public |
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Established | 1991[1] |
President | Omar K. A. Melad[2] |
Academic staff | 290[3] |
Undergraduates | about 16,000[1] |
Postgraduates | about 700[4] |
Location | , |
Affiliations | UNIMED |
Website | www |
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In 2023, the university's facilities were destroyed by Israeli bombardment of Gaza during the 2023 Israel–Hamas War.[6]