Kufa University

The University of Kufa is an Iraqi university located in Najaf, Iraq. It was founded in 1987 and comprises 12 colleges. The College of Medicine was established a decade earlier and attached to Mustansiriya University. In 1989, the College of Arts was established with only two departments: the Arabic Language Department and the Department of History. In 1991, the regime of Saddam Hussein closed the university after an uprising in March 1991, but two years later it was re-opened. There are eight presidents from 1987 up to now. This school was reopened in 2003-2004 after being closed by Saddam Hussein's regime in 1991, the Faculty of Jurisprudence is the first established in Al-Najaf, in 1958. The Faculty of Islamic Studies grants bachelor...