Al-Quds University , represented by its president, Prof. Dr. Imad Abu Kishek and Jerusalemite businessman Samir Adel Awaida signed a cooperation and financing agreement to establish a solar power plant at the university, within the framework of Mr. Awaida's project to develop solar energy in the city of Jerusalem.

The agreement stipulates that Mr. Aweidah will provide an amount of one and a half million dollars as a total value for the establishment of a solar power plant at Al-Quds University, the largest Palestinian institution in the city of Jerusalem.

Prof. Dr. thanked Abu Kishk Al-Sayed Awaida for this generous donation, which comes within a comprehensive development vision through which Al-Quds University seeks to promote and invest in clean energy alternatives to achieve pioneering leaps in the level of infrastructure, university services, and its academic and development aspirations.

Prof. Dr. confirmed Abu Kishk stressed the importance of this project for the Holy City, as it will push it to develop in the field of energy, economy and development, which is what the university seeks to achieve based on its social vision aimed at promoting leadership and investment in it as a way to advance the city's economy and improve its conditions in all fields.

The two parties discussed the stages of the project prior to its launch, and the development and promotion of partnership in order to improve the field of energy in Palestine, its holy city and its economy in particular.

Al-Quds University seeks to achieve empowerment and development in the Holy City through its various partnerships, centers and development projects in Jerusalem, in order to develop the city services and economically and achieve financial stability by creating job opportunities and supporting special projects for the people of Jerusalem.

Mr. Samir Aweidah is considered one of the Palestinian businessmen active in charitable work, especially related to the city of Jerusalem, where he was born in 1934, studied in its schools, and his family was forcibly displaced by the occupation authorities. He graduated from the National College in Ramallah, and worked in the Jordanian Ministry of Social Affairs. Then he moved to work in the field of translation and editing in Saudi Arabia, and in the news department at the Kuwaiti Broadcasting House, and then as a sales manager at Youssef Ahmed Al-Ghanim Company. Then, in the early seventies of the last century, he established the “Gulf Development and Reconstruction Company - Inma”, and he remained Chairman of its board of directors until end of 2011.