The President of Yarmouk University, Professor Islam Massad, met with the attaché of cultural, scientific and university cooperation at the French Embassy in Amman, Annabelle Ostyn, discussing ways to enhance academic cooperation between Yarmouk University and the French Embassy as well as various French educational institutions.

Massad pointed to the history of the academic and cultural cooperation relations between Yarmouk University and the French Embassy in Amman and several prestigious French universities, stressing the university's keenness to enhance such cooperation. He then encouraged the French embassy to consider sending more professors of the French language to teach in the Department of Modern Languages ​​in the Faculty of Arts. Massad also called on the French embassy to work on finding opportunities of cooperation between Yarmouk and French universities concerning the Postgraduate programs in medical law, ethics, and Middle Eastern studies.

For her part, Ostyn praised the depth of relations linking Yarmouk with the French Embassy and universities, especially in the field of teaching the French language, archeology, and cultural history. She pointed to the possibility of creating opportunities of exchanging students and faculty members between Yarmouk and various French universities as well as conducting some joint scientific projects in cooperation between Yarmouk, French universities, and universities of the European Union.

This meeting was attended by the Vice President of the University, Professor Riyad Momani, Professor Muwaffaq Omoush, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Professor Mousa Al-Rababah, the Dean of the Hijjawi Faculty of Technological Engineering and the Director of the Department of International Relations and Projects, Professor Muwaffaq Otoom, and Dr. Batool Muhaisen from the Department of Modern Languages, and the Director of Public Relations and Media, Mr. Mukhles Ebbeni.