His Excellency Prof. Abdullah bin Omar Bafail, President of Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), issued (4) administrative decisions that include the following:

1. Appointment of Dr. Abdul-Aziz bin Mishrif bin Muhammad Al-Sha`ir as Dean of Faculty Members and Employees Affairs for Data and Information Affairs, for a tenure of six months, as of 24 Jumada Al-Awwal, 1440 A.H.
2. Appointment of Dr. Ahmad bin Omar bin Ahmad Al-Sayyid as the Director of the Islamic Studies Center in the College of Shari`ah and Islamic Studies for a tenure of six months, as of 24 Jumada Al-Awwal, 1440 A.H.
3. Appointment of Prof. Eissa bin Yahia bin Muhammad Maharish as Head of the Department of Information Systems at the College of Computing in Al-Qunfudhah, for a tenure of six months, as of 22 Jumada Al-Awwal, 1440 A.H.
4. Reappointment of Dr. Aishah bin Husain bin Mustafa Qurban Barudi as Deputy Head of the Department of Classical Arabic Rhetoric and Literary Criticism at the College of Arabic Language and Literature (female section), for a tenure of six months, as of 28 Jumada Al-Awwal, 1440 A.H.

His Excellency asks Allah (Glorified and Exalted be He) to help them and grant them success in performing their duty toward knowledge and its seekers, and in raising the standard of the university to enable it to reach its desired goals.