The President

Dr. Abdeljabbar Arrach, is the first appointed president at FAOU, since End of 2016, he started to lead this institution to achieve the planned goals. He received all his degrees in cultural, legal, administrative and political studies from German universities. Currently, Dr. Arrach, besides this position, he serves as the vice dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Hassan 1st in Morocco, also as director of LRTDC (Laboratory for Research on Comparative Democratic Transition), Director of House of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Head of Human Rights Law Clinic in FSJES Settat.

Brief Biography of the President

President

Dr. Abdeljabbar Arrach

Philosophy

Fatima Al-Fihri Open University is a non-profit university, aims to strengthen access to higher education around the world especially to developing countries. Here at FAOU, we believe that universities need to offer education to all youth without any barriers or conditions, therefore we are working with our partners in this case by offering low cost and free courses for everyone in the world!

Goals

We intend to bring to the students, world-class courses, in the form of short courses (4-12 weeks), Bachelor degrees (3 or 4 years) and Specialized Masters (1 or 2 years). All the programs will be open online and can be studied at each student self-pace.

Agenda

FAOU in the first year (2019) will be focusing on short courses while planning for Bachelor Degrees and Master Degrees to be open in late of the coming year 2021. The short courses are already and there's no condition to apply or to start any course of them. The plan of upcoming bachelor and Master Degrees will be available soon before the start of the year 2021.