His Excellency Prof. Abdullah bin Omar Bafail, President of Umm Al-Qura University (UQU), issued an administrative decision to establish a new administration under the name: “Scientific Societies Administration”, affiliated directly to His Excellence the UQU Vice President for Postgraduate Studies and Scientific Research.

This decision was guided by the university’s vision of the necessity of linking the scientific societies with the university under one unified administration, to serve the various scientific societies. This is with the aim of consolidating the exerted efforts, facilitating their procedures, and linking these societies to the university’s administration.

His Excellency the UQU President also issued an administrative decision appointing His Excellency Dr. Hisham bin Abdul-Rahman bin Mahmoud Maghrabi as General Supervisor of the newly established “Scientific Societies Administration”, starting from 2 Jumada Al-Thani, 1441 A.H. His Excellency Prof. Abdullah asks Allah (Exalted and Glorified be He) to help Dr. Maghrabi and grant him success in performing his duty towards knowledge and its seekers, and in raising the standard of this university to enable it to reach its desired goals.

On his part, His Excellency Dr. Hisham Maghrabi expressed his appreciation for the trust that the UQU President bestowed on him by appointing him as General Supervisor of the Scientific Societies Administration. He added that he will earnestly spare no effort to be worthy of this lauded trust and confidence, and will work towards harnessing all his scientific, administrative and academic experience to upgrade the work environment at the administration, to be in line with the Saudi Vision 2030, according to the national Transformation Plan 2020.