Languages spoken on campus include Arabic, Hebrew, English, French, and Spanish.

Ansam Sawalha, who is the dean of the faculty of pharmacy, is the first Palestinian woman named to the Women in Science Hall of Fame in 2011.

Sawalha was honored for her achievement of establishing the first Poison Control and Drug Information Center in the Palestinian Territories in 2006.

[2][3] In 2010 six members of the faculty including Ghassan Khaled were arrested by Palestinian Authority security forces for being closely linked to a charity that is suspected of being a front for Hamas.

Qassem had been targeted in the past by Palestinian security forces, and was at one point shot and wounded.