Praise be to Allah, the Lord of the creations, may peace and blessings be upon the seal of the prophets and the messengers and the leader of Al-Ghur Al-Muhajalin (results from ablution), his family and his companions and upon all those who called for by his invitation to the day of judgment. To proceed :-
University Of Anbar was established in 1987 by the dissolved Revolution Command Council Decree No. 951 of 23/12/1987. The goal of the establishment of the university was to create a scientific and cultural edifice that would contribute to the preparation of specialized scientific staff that would play an active role in building and developing the modern Iraqi renaissance. The university has developed in terms of the number of colleges, scientific departments, laboratories, teaching staff and student numbers. In the academic year 88/1989, the Colleges of Education for women and the college of Education were opened on campus. At that time, there were (345) students and (31) teaching staff members. There were no hostels affiliated with the university, but public organizations provided housing after the construction of a number of government buildings and the private sector. The academic year of 89/1990 witnessed the opening of engineering, science and medicine colleges in the academic year 1990-1991, while the colleges of Dentistry and Agriculture were opened in the academic year 1992-1993, and the teaching began in the 1993-1994 and 1994-19995 academic years. The number of students for that academic year was 1992-1993 (3268) male and female students, each from the Colleges of Education for women, college of Education, college of Engineering, college of Sciences and college of Medicine, while the number of members of the teaching staff for the same year was 266. This continuous increase in the number of students in general and the students wishing to reside in the hostels led the university to consider finding solutions to address the housing problem. A unit to oversee the hostels was set up at the university headquarters in 1992. These departments were directly administered by the colleges, the colleges bear their financial and administrative burdens, and the general supervision was by the hostels unit in the university presidency. The management of this unit rotated in each university presidency :-
1 -Inst. Ibrahim Ismail Al-Hayani
2-. Assist. Inst. Nayef Zail Daridah Al-Obaidi
3- Mr. Abd Al-Rahman Khala Abid
4- Mr. Walid Khalid Jaber
5- Mr. Khalid Saleh Al-Qarghuli
Therefore, a number of buildings were allocated by the Ministry of Finance to be used as hostels at University Of Anbar: For example, "the building of the local administration/The green which consisted of seven floors opposite to the Islamic bank at that time which was completely destroyed during military operations. The building of the hostel no. 1, which belonged to the Institute of Female Teachers Training, also opposite to the central library, it was completely destroyed and replaced with the building of the hostel no. 9, the Workers' Union building at 17th. Street, the building of the Republican Hospital/fractions Hall, the Ishtar Club building, the Oil Products branch building, currently, This is in addition to the F. 9 housing complex, Al-Tamim kindergarten and the former Ramadi District Administration building, which is adjacent to the Oils Bridge from the market. In addition to the 10th floor, west of Ramadi, the university took advantage of a number of buildings as hostels. It was unable to acquire other buildings, despite being allocated by the Ministry of Finance for the purposes of University of Anbar, such as the Ishtar Club at July 17th. Street and Al-Tamim Kindergarten building. For this reason, the university was forced to rent a number of private sector buildings, such as Hamid Al-Ani building, Wahid Abboud Al-Janabi building, Khaled Al-Kubaisi building, Abu Zuhair's building, Fawaz Makhlaf Tarad's building, Abdul Mohammad Ghaidan's building, Al-Hayani building and many others. These buildings were located in different areas of Al-Ramadi on Maysaloon Street, Oruzdi Street, adjacent to the province, as well as in the area of Al-Thayalah Al-Sharqiyah, and two buildings in the Fallujah city.
The increase in the number of students wishing to reside led to many problems for colleges in managing the hostels, due to the lack of financial allocations on the one hand, and the shortage of administrative staff on the other. The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research agreed to establish the Directorate of hostels at University Of Anbar, so that the responsibility for managing the hostels will shift from the colleges to this directorate. The Directorate will bear its financial and administrative burdens. For this reason, University Order No. 249 was issued on January 25, 2000 and Assist. Inst. Salam Fayyad Al-Hassan was assigned to manage this directorate with only two employees, Mrs. Iftikhar Abid Chichan and Mr.Faisal Khalaf Najim, while the rest of the employees who did not amount (20) were distributed among administrative, supervisors and guards working on a daily wages.
The year 2002 had witnessed a mutation when the university, in coordination with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, embraced the idea of building housing complexes for students in hostels inside and outside the campus. In the years that followed, the university reached the possibility of accommodating all of its students in these complexes, with the exception of students from the city of Fallujah, before separating from the university and becoming an independent university (Fallujah University), students from the College of Applied Sciences (Hit), and students from the College of Basic Education (Haditha) as their hostels buildings are still under construction.
The academic year, specifically on June 7, 2014, witnessed a major turning point that negatively affected the progress of the scientific and educational process at the university, after ISIS terrorist gangs occupied the main university site in Al-Ramadi/Al-Tamim and wreaked havoc on it. For this reason, the university was forced to relocate to an alternative site in Al-Ramadi in the medical group, the College of Education for Women, and the College of Agriculture. The hostel no. (8), located in the College of Agriculture, was the only shelter for the reception of students from the hostels, along with building no. (7) which was allocated for the medical group female students. Months later, the university presidency felt that things were threatening the coming danger of the occupation of Al-Ramadi city, so it moved to the city of Hit and indeed it fell in a few months later and then the city of Ramadi. Therefore, the real challenge came after the university’s displacement to different locations, and the opinion settled on opening four exam sites for displaced students, which are:
-Al-Nahrain University/Baghdad
-University of Baghdad / College of Agriculture (Abu Ghraib)
-Cihan University and Salahuddin University / Erbil
- University of Sulaymaniyah / Sulaymaniyah
Efforts are joined and the academic year (2013-2014) was passed according to scientific and educational standards, then the university took a courageous decision, in coordination with the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research, to open two main sites in the year 2014-2015, namely (Kirkuk and Abu Ghraib/ College of Agriculture). The site was completely rehabilitated as it was run-down, and all its furniture and contents were transferred by the University of Baghdad before the university got into it, so the complexes of the hostels were abandoned and lacking the most basic elements of housing. The great challenge came in receiving more than (5000) students in this run-down site. There were real dilemmas in front of the university and the Department of hostels Affairs in finding a place to accommodate these students and then provide them with food, clothing and a decent life throughout the period of displacement, because most of these students were cut off from their families and their families are in the areas controlled by the terrorist ISIS at the time..
After the university was liberated from the ISIS in late July, 2015, the university organized field visits to the university site to assess the situation there, followed by the University Reconstruction Conference on April 25, 2016, which resulted in the formation of an executive committee that meets periodically for the purpose of starting reconstruction, which was the first step and the first priority is the rehabilitation of the complexes of the hostels. So it began with the hostel No. (1) by the company (UN-Habitat) affiliated with the United Nations (UNDP) and then the other hostels so that the university has turned the page on displacement and returned to the original site on 1/9/ 2017 to start again the march of science and construction.