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The UNESCO Chair participated in receiving the representative of the Vatican Pope

Mr. Yasser Lafta Hassoun, the President of Al-Kufa University, received the representative of the Vatican Pope, Minister Plenipotentiary Mr. Zablos Anzelm, on Monday, 2/10/2023. Dr. Musab Al-Khzaai, the representative of the UNESCO Chair, participated in the meeting, which discussed enhancing mutual cooperation with the university and its specialized colleges regarding the promotion of religious and cultural dialogue. The visit also ...

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The UNESCO Chair representative met with the President of the Republic of Iraq on 24th July 2023.

Dr. Tahseen Fadel Abbas, the UNESCO Chair Representative at the University of Kufa, met with the President of the Republic of Iraq as part of an academic and media delegation on Monday, July 24, 2023. They discussed the efforts of the UNESCO Chair at the University of Kufa in the field of Inter-religious Dialogue in the Islamic World. They also ...

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The Director of the UNESCO Chair participates in a UNESCO Seminar on Advancing Scientific and Academic Freedoms in Times of Complexity.

The Director of the UNESCO Chair, Dr. Alaa Shatnan, participated in the sixth Seminar in the series of Seminar organized by the UNESCO Chairs Network on Wednesday 28/06/2023, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. (Paris time). The Seminar was titled (Advancing Scientific and Academic Freedoms in Times of Complexity).    The Seminar focused on scientific freedom and academic freedom as ...

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UNESCO Chair Participates In Symposium: “Science Benefiting Society – The Role Of The Right To Science “.

On Wednesday, June 14th, 2023, Dr Alaa Shattnan, the Director of the UNESCO Chair at Kufa University, participated in a symposium titled “Science Benefit Society – the Role of the Right to Science”, organized by UNESCO. The symposium addressed the role of science and scientists in the service of society, especially in addressing health crises and pandemics and their consequences ...

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Vatican Delegation Visits Archaeological Sites of Babylon on Thursday, 16/3/2023.

Recently, the Vatican delegation visited the Archaeological sites of Babylon’s city as a part of the Christian-Islamic forum programme sponsored by the UNESCO Chair at the University of Kufa. This visit was held to commemorate the second anniversary of the Pope’s visit to Iraq, during which he had a historic meeting with the religious authority Ali Al Sistani. A delegation ...

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The Second Specialized Forum, “Iraq’s Mass Graves: Investigation, Exploration, and Documentation Mechanisms”.

On February 22, 2022, the Iraqi Centre for Documentation of Crimes of Extremism in  The al-Abbas’s holy shrine joined forces with the UNESCO Chair at the University of Kufa and the Grand Mullah Centre of the University of Kweh in Iraqi Kurdistan to organize the second  Forum on “Mass Graves in Iraq: Investigation, Exploration, and Documentation Mechanisms.” The Forum was ...

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The Director of The UNESCO Chair Discussed Cooperation with the Dominican University in Paris

On November 22, 2022, Dr. Alaa Shattnan, Director of the UNESCO Chair, visited Mr. Michel Van Aerde, President of the Dominican University, and Marie Monnet, his assistant, to discuss bilateral cooperation between the University of Dominican and the University of Kufa. The meeting took place at the university’s headquarters in Paris. It was decided to sign cooperation agreements between the ...

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From The Inspiration of Quranic Rhetoric, A New Book Published by UNESCO Chair

The Intellectual Studies Series in the UNESCO Chair at Kufa University published a new book titled “From The Inspiration of Quranic Rhetoric, Studies in Qur’anic Expression” by Dr. Aqil Al-Khaqani, a professor in the Faculty of Arts. The book has 208 pages, in which the author talked about the Qur’anic miracle, its many phenomena, methods, studies, and analyses, as well ...

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Apostolic Nuncio-Ambassador Of The Holy See-Vatican Visits The UNESCO Chair For Dialogue.

On Thursday, March 10, 2022, Archbishop Mitja Leskovar, Apostolic Nuncio-Ambassador of the Holy See-Vatican, as well as the accompanying church delegation, visited the University of Kufa and the UNESCO Chair for Dialogue. The visit of the Apostolic Nuncio-Ambassador of the Holy See-Vatican commemorated the first anniversary of the visit of the Pope to Iraq and his historic meeting with supreme ...

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UNESCO Chair Participates in Religion Dialogue Meeting at Najaf Al-Ashraf

The UNESCO Chair participated in the meeting at AL_Khoei  Institute commemorating the first anniversary of the visit of the Pope to Iraq and his historic meeting with supreme leader Sayyid Ali al Sistani indulgence in Najaf Al-Ashraf on 10/3/2022. The meeting was attended by the Apostolic Nuncio-Ambassador of the Holy See-Vatican accredited to Iraq, as well as the accompanying church ...

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