Model United Nations, also known as Model UN or MUN, is an extra-curricular activity in which students typically role-play delegates to the United Nations and simulate UN committees. AHISMUN’19 was held on 25th and 26th January 2019 from 7:30am to 9:30pm. The conference was organized by the High School students and in particularly by the IBDP CAS students. This activity gave students a great deal of CAS experience.
The conference was inaugurated by the General Manager, Mr. Ghassan El-Jilani on behalf of the President AlHussan Group, Mr. Rashid AlHussan.
A total of 100 students participated from different schools in the Eastern and Central Provinces including Jubail International School and Orbit International School.
The theme of AHISKMUN’19 revolved around “Sustainable Goals-Transforming our world”, giving the students an opportunity to have an insight about the problems of the world and helping them to develop critical thinking skills and pragmatic problem solving.
Five committees were formed namely; UNSC, ECOSOC, UNHRC, IAEA and DISEC. The main team constituted of the following:
President: Hasan Fakih
Secretary General: Mohammed Faisal
Deputy Secretary General: Saif Ahmed
Head of Delegates: Firas Ghanem
Head of Admin: Abdullah Ghazzawi
Head of Security: Haroun Mufti
Head of Press: Ahmed Radi & Mohamed Khamis