The President of Yarmouk University, Professor Islam Massad, discussed with the second counsellor at the French Embassy in Amman, Marion Eynard, and the cultural and university cooperation attaché, Annabelle Ostyn, ways to enhance cooperation in various academic and research fields. He stressed the importance of strengthening the existing cooperation with French educational and academic institutions, focusing on the importance of developing academic courses of French at Yarmouk by switching to the applied French language, which copes with the requirements of the labor market. He then pointed to the importance of developing the agreements signed between Yarmouk and French universities in terms of the exchange of faculty members, especially in the faculties of medicine, engineering, and law as well as the studies of refugees, displaced persons, and women.
The meeting was attended by Ms. Rawan Alhomaimat, head of cooperation affairs at the French Embassy, the Director of the Refugees, Displaced Persons and Forced Migration Studies Center, Dr. Reem Al-Kharouf, the Director of the Princess Basma Center for Jordanian Women's Studies, Dr. Amna Al-Khasawneh, the Director of Public Relations and Media, Dr. Nawzat Abu Al-Asal, Dr. Batoul al-Muhaisen from the Department of Modern Languages, the representative of the university at the Francophone Agency, Dr. Mamoun Al-Shtiwi, and Dr. Tareq Al-Naser from the Refugees Center.
After the meeting, the delegation visited the centers of refugees and women, where Al-Kharouf presented the refugees center's strategic vision and the most prominent projects and themes that are developed while Al-Khasawneh gave a presentation on the women center's strategy and achievements in terms of research studies and training programs that aim at promoting the concepts of women's rights among the student and local community. She also presented a brief about the companies and memberships associated with the center.