December 20, 2018 The UNESCO Chair for dialogue at the University of Kufa held a workshop on “Peaceful Coexistence in Iraq”. The main goal of this workshop was to spread the culture of tolerance and accepting the other among Iraqi youth. The workshop targeted students from Faculty of Arts, Kufa University. Indeed, educating the students about the significant role that ...

Hani Fahs prize was founded in 2016 in collaboration between Saint Joseph University – Institute of Islamic and Christian Studies and UNESCO Chair at the University of Kufa and other parties. This year 2018, the prize was awarded to Dr. Tarek Mati, manager of Isam Fares Institute for Public Policies and International Affairs. Also, the Community of Sant’egidio won Hani ...

The President of the University of Religions and Denominations in Republic of Iran, Sayed Abulhasan Al-Nawab, met with UNESCO Chair Dr. Hassan Nadhem, where he discussed ways to open scientific and academic cooperation between the UNESCO Chair and the League of Religions and Schools.

The founder of Center for Countering Hate Speech, Dr. Hassan Nadhem, also co-founded by the Masarat Foundation for Cultural and Media Development in Baghdad, which is supported by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the meeting was held in Beirut on March 16th 2018. The agreement of this center was signed by a number of Iraqi institutions such as Dar Al–Ilm (Al–Khoei Institute) ...

The origins of violence for John Ducker.   And the crisis of the Iraqi enlightenment to “Falah Rahim”.   A series of ‘Intellectual studies’ at the University of Kufa, has now published two new books in 2018. The title of the first book is “The Origins of Violence: Religion, History and Extermination” by Australian researcher and academic John Ducker, translated ...

On behalf of the UNESCO Chair at the University of Kufa in Iraq we express our heartfelt condolences to Faleh Jabar’s family on his death. We mourn this farewell, which closes off Jabar’s amazingly rich life history Faleh  Jabbar was a celebrated sociologist and a Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in New York. He was a Research Fellow ...

Within the activities of the UNESCO Chair at the University of Kufa, in coordination with the Center for African Studies at Ataba Abbasiya, the University of Kufa welcomed delegates from Al-Azhar University in Egypt. We were honoured to have welcomed Dr. Walid Mohammed Ramadan (Professor of Quranic Sciences in Al-Azhar Al-Sharif), Sheikh Mohammad Ramadan (Khatib), Sheikh Nashaat Zara (great imams ...

Sayyed Jawad Al-Khoei, Secretary-General of Dar al-Ilm in Najaf, visited the UNESCO Chair at the University of Kufa and met with the President of the University of Kufa Dr. Mohsen Al-Dhulmi and director of UNESCO Chair Dr. Hassan Nadhem, they discussed future collaborations between the University and Dar al-Ilm  in the near future.

The cooperation between the UNESCO Chair for Dialogue at the University of Kufa and the Hani Fahas Academy for Dialogue and Peace and the Al-Balaji Academy in Dar Al-Ulm for Imam Al-Khoei in Najaf and the Chair of UNESCO for Dialogue and the Institute of Islamic-Christian Dialogue at Saint Joseph University announced on Thursday morning (21 December 2017) A ceremony ...