The Faculty of Arts, Assiut University has been recently accredited by the National Authority for Quality Assurance and Accreditation of Education (NAQAAE) to become the eighth Faculty in the university after the Faculties of Science, Engineering, Vet Medicine, Medicine, Agriculture, and Education.   On this occasion, Prof. Moatamid A. A. Soliman, Dean of the Faculty of Arts indicated that the resolution of accreditation comes with such a great honor since the Faculty of Arts, Assiut University is the first Faculty in the entire Arts Sector of the Egyptian Universities to obtain academic accreditation; a contribution that adds to the remarkable achievements of the university. Prof. Soliman added that the endeavor to get accreditation started in 2007 with the Faculty winning a QAAP project aiming at developing the academic programs of the Faculty and establishing an inner system for Quality Assurance. This was followed by another CIQAP project in 2009 to carry out the work for qualifying the faculty for accreditation by developing its infrastructure side by side with necessary improvement of its educational efficiency. The Faculty of Arts, the Dean added, is distinguished among its peers by a number of privileges including its effective centers and private units which provide services to the university and the entire community.