On 5 January 2017, the University President, Prof Ghassan Aouad with the Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Faiza Zitouni and Head of Marketing and Student Recruitment, Edyta Przybyla attended the weekly majlis of Shaikh Hisham Bin Abdulrahman Al Khalifa at Capital Governorate.

During the meeting Shaikh Hisham offered ASU a one year scholarship worth of BD 35,000 to be awarded to one of our students to study for a year at a university in China. It is the first scholarship awarded by the Capital Governorate to a university in Bahrain.