The memorandum on the establishment of the Federation of Russian and Arab Universities was signed on May 16, 2017, as part of a meeting between the President of the Russian Union of Rectors, the Rector of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Academician V. A. Sadovnichy, and the Secretary General of the Association of Arab Universities, Professor Sultan Abuorabi.
Currently, the Federation includes 70 leading universities of the Russian Federation and the Arab world.