The oldest university in the world is Moroccan

Al Quaraouiyine University in Fez, Morocco is the oldest still operating university in the world, according to UNESCO and the Guinness Book of Records.

Founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri, a Tunisian who settled in Fez with her family, Al Quaraouiyine University was initially created as a center for religious and Islamic studies. But over time it became a place of teaching science, mathematics, astronomy, medicine and philosophy. It is the first higher education establishment to issue a university degree, and one of the first to promote the exchange of knowledge between Islamic, European and Greco-Latin cultures, recalls The reason.