{"id":7899,"date":"2019-08-07T15:35:06","date_gmt":"2019-08-07T15:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/7899-iraq-s-first-university-for-women-opening-this-year\/"},"modified":"2019-08-07T15:35:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-07T15:35:06","slug":"iraq-s-first-university-for-women-opening-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiawaves.com\/english\/news\/7899-iraq-s-first-university-for-women-opening-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Iraq\u2019s first university for women opening this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12.16px;\">The holy city of Karbala will witness this year the inauguration of al-Zahra University, the first women&#8217;s university in Iraq, according to the head of the Higher Education Department at<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p>The holy city of Karbala will witness this year the inauguration of al-Zahra University, the first women&#8217;s university in Iraq, according to the head of the Higher Education Department at Imam Hussain Holy Shrine.<\/p>\n<p>Afdhal al-Shami said that the university includes three faculties: the Faculty of Pharmacy, the Faculty of Medical Technology (anesthesia, radiology\/sonar and physiotherapy), and the Faculty of Education (English, Arabic and Mathematics).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAl-Zahraa University was designed according to solid standards and Imam Hussain Holy Shrine seeks to make it global through the adoption of e-learning as a basis in the educational process,&#8221; al-Shami added.<\/p>\n<p>The head of the Higher Education Department pointed out that the University Administration has set competitive tuitions compared to other universities; in addition, daughters of martyred soldiers will have even lower tuitions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe legal and scientific approvals of the University have been obtained by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research since 2018,\u201d clarified al-Shami.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Zahraa University is equipped with modern scientific laboratories and can accommodate 250 students in this first stage, and there is a plan to expand and develop it in the near future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holy city of Karbala will witness this year the inauguration of al-Zahra University, the first women&#8217;s university in Iraq, according to the head of the Higher Education Department at The holy city of Karbala will witness this year the inauguration of al-Zahra University, the first women&#8217;s university in Iraq, according to the head of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_108372464460192_245495985553329":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - 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