About the Faculty

Humanities studies at Sana'a University began with the establishment of the university in 1970, under the umbrella of the Faculty of Education, which admitted its first batch of students the same year. The initial number of enrolled students in that year was 64, with 12 of them being admitted to the then Arts Department. In 1971, a new college was founded, which included the departments of arts, education, and sciences. Subsequently, in 1973, the Faculty of Arts was established as an autonomous institution within Sana'a University, comprising five departments: Arabic Language, English Language, History, Geography, and Social Sciences. This significant year in the history of the Faculty was also marked by the graduation of the first group comprising nine students.

Since then, the Faculty has experienced remarkable growth, introducing new learning programs and opening new departments (the most recent of which is the African Studies Dept. in 2024) to reach so far a total of 13 departments so far. Additionally, it has been able to keep pace with and make efficient use of modern digital advances; the SAR system, for example, has been utilized over the last five years (2020-2025) to issue graduation documents. All these efforts to improve the Faculty’s academic and administrative performance culminated in earning the Academic Accreditation Board’s institutional accreditation award for 2025 (the Diamond Category) and holding a distinguished standing among the colleges of Sana’a University, which demonstrates the outstanding performance and dedication of the faculty staff at both academic and administrative levels.

The Faculty's commitment to academic excellence has extended beyond undergraduate studies to offer postgraduate programs across the fields of Arts and Humanities, which allows dedicated graduates to pursue diplomas, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees.