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On the last days, H.E. Prof. Dr. Suliman Aba Al-Khail, Rector of Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University and President of the Executive Council of the Federation of Universities of Islamic World (FUIW), inaugurated the 19th regular meeting of the executive council of FUIW at Rabat, capital city of Kingdom of Morocco, along with Dr. Abdulaziz Othman Altwaijri, the Director General of the Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO), the Secretary General of FUIW.

In an address delivered at the opening session, H.E. the university rector praised the staunch efforts of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, the Custodian of the Holy Mosques, and by Crown Prince H.R.H. Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz and by Deputy Crown Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, in serving Islam and Muslims everywhere around the globe. He, additionally, thanked His Majesty the King, Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, and the Moroccan government for their hospitality to the 19th session’s meeting.

H.E. the university rector also pointed out that, FUIW 19th session is holding amid grave circumstances in the Muslim world, marked with the rise of terrorism, the deviation from the right path and the spiral of bloody conflicts which have torn countries apart, driven populations away and destroyed buildings. In this regard, he called universities in the Muslim world which he described as incubators of knowledge to exert sustained efforts to address these challenges and continue promoting effective planning to meet the pressing challenges facing higher education and scientific research in the Member Universities.

In similar vein, FUIW 19th council session has discussed a number of reports and resolutions most notably the resolutions concerning the “Islamic Virtual University”, the “Islamic Body on Quality and Accreditation”, the “Centre for University Education and Scientific Research Ethics”, the “Network of Strategic Planning Experts in Member Universities. The attendants also has requests of joining from many universities and they decided to admit six of them to join FUIW.

At the end of the meeting, the members considering the kind offer made by Al-Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University to host the 20th Session of the Executive Council, they were thanked H.E. the university rector for his kind proposal, and decided to hold its next session in November 2015 at Al-Imam Muhammad ibn Saud Islamic University