HBKU holds graduation ceremony for Class of 2024

Doha, Qatar: Speaker of the Shura Council H E Hassan bin Abdulla Al Ghanim, and Vice Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation (QF) and Chairperson of H...

Doha, Qatar: Speaker of the Shura Council H E Hassan bin Abdulla Al Ghanim, and Vice Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation (QF) and Chairperson of HBKU Board of Trustees H E Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani witnessed graduation ceremony for Hamad Bin Khalifa University's Class of 2024 yesterday.   

Ministers, officials, HBKU’s senior leadership and deans of its six colleges, members of the university’s staff and faculty, and the families and friends of the graduates also attended the graduation, held at the Qatar National Convention Centre.

HBKU awarded degrees to 247 students including 142 female and 105 male graduates — 61 of which were Qatari citizens.

HBKU President Dr. Ahmad M. Hasnah said: “The challenges ahead of you are great, yet the hope we have in you matches these challenges. Set ambitious goals and let your aspirations transcend personal achievements, for history only remembers those with altruistic hands and those whose influence goes beyond individual pursuits”.

In their remarks, the keynote speaker, Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Rector of the University of Glasgow, said: “What we have learned from the war in Gaza is that in order to erase a people, you must first start with their universities. And to erase a nation, you must end the education process.”