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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

UNESCO Chair has published a new book entitled ” The Well and the Honey: Contemporary Readings in Traditional Texts” by Dr. Hatem Al -Sakr. Mrs. Noor Ismail, who is responsible for the series “Intellectual Studies”, said: The book deals with a collection of literary heritage texts that are subject to a certain reading pattern, namely, the effectiveness of interpretation through ...

In the margins of his participation in UNESCO 41st session meetings in Paris, Dr. Alaa Shatnan the Director of the UNESCO Chair for Dialogue at the University of Kufa met  Mrs. Linda Tinio , assistant Director  of the UNESCO Social and Human Sciences Sector and Coordinator of Dialogue Programs and Activities anti-racism  and hate speech. During the meeting, the tasks ...

Unesco Chair at the University of Kufa is continually looking to establish interfaith dialogue between people of different faiths, sects or spiritual beliefs, with the intention of promoting understanding between different religions to increase acceptance and tolerance. In Cairo, the Chairholder of UNESCO chair, Sayyid Jawad al-Khoei, was in a meeting with the Grand Mufti of Egypt, Shawki Allam, discussing ...