A Distinctive Participation of Our University in the Festival of Brotherhood
Because the University of Baghdad is the mother and it is the larger and wider Enterprise than the other scientific institutions in Iraq and the Middle East, it is keen to be always influential and distinctive, through its effective, expressive and powerful contributions in regional and local forums and platforms, but it is interested of national and effective civilized projects that serve the society.
University of Baghdad has participated in the ninth festival of Brotherhood meeting for hobbies and diverse crafts which the Ministry of Culture held, on the sidelines of the project Baghdad is the Capital of Culture, which took place on the land of the global railway station, and on the Forum of Al-Mutanabi Street, where our university participated as the largest part at the festival and with the largest number of participants and creators from many colleges , institutes and scientific departments such as college of Agriculture and the College of Fine Arts and the college of Physical Education in Al-Jadirriya and college of Physical Education for girls, as well as some academic departments at the university and some of the centers, where the university has established its participation and contribution of the festival on a set of pillars and walls and corridors under the dome of the global station, and by offering more possibilities and applications of the University in this forum where hundreds of government institutions and non-governmental organizations have participated and as usual the University of Baghdad has the lion’s share in this active participation, which several members of the Iraqi Parliaments and representatives from government institutions and non-governmental as well as many civil society organizations. The Minister of Culture sponsored the festival which was like a biggest cultural artistic heritage tourist event that suits our beloved country in peaceful Baghdad. The festival is considered part of the project of Baghdad, the capital of Arab culture 2013).It included 86 exhibitions with the participation of 200 participants from Iraq and Arab countries such as Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraqi expatriates from Germany, England and the links and organizations of civil society.
Under the Dome of global station exhibits diversified to include a number of participations of our university, where an exhibition of Graphic paintings about the achievements of the university which attracted many attendees due to its important information about the university that influenced the attendees’ souls to feel proud of our honored university , as well as our university set up show film “promotion”special for the university and documentaries of the University .Prof. Dr. Abdulbassit Salman editor of Websit has represented the university accompanied by Raed Hussein, Ammar Hussein and Caesar Effendi from the Office of President of the University, and the presence of Prof. Dr. Hassan Mandeel ,Arabic Language expert in the website and Dr. Kadhem Imran Musa media and relations manager with a group of media people of the University to document this cultural event, as well as our university set up exhibition of rare flowers , Department of Gardening and landscaping in the Affairs Bureau University, which provided the University with a set of good and rare flowers that allocated for the festival. College of Fine Arts held an exhibition of paintings and some watercolor paintings with a display of some statues and monuments, College of Agriculture held also an offer of its products of milk and some products and display them in front of the audience by a private large car .College of Physical Education – Jadrriyya held an exhibition of jewelry and paintings ,some clothing and rare textiles with some cards designed by some students, as well as the display of some students’ work of accessories. In addition College of Physical Education for Girls held a special exhibition of college publications to display with athletic dramatic offer for some girl students. College of Management and Economics participated in an exhibition of cards , posters, and caricature, and Graphic and won the best design of a poster for the festival .Department of Mass Media also displays leaflets , posters and publications and distributed to some attendees as a good initiative in the expanding circle of influence of the media during the festival. The department of Mass Media has a significant and important role in this festival in the suite of Baghdad University.
Media of satellite , radio and television stations with newspapers, magazines and websites covered the participation of the University of Baghdad and held a series of meetings with Dr. Abdulbassit Salman, head of the University of Baghdad Co festival, as well as meetings were set up with Professor Hassan Mandeel Arabic language expert and a member of the preparatory committee of the festival, as well as with Dr. Kadhem Imran Musa, who showed the effective role of the university in serving the society through numerous contributions in conferences, seminars and international and local festivals .The media have highlighted the University of Baghdad and stepped up its coverage of this active participation, as well as is the case with many of the officials who attended the the festival, where they feel great sympathy of the university and what it introduced of posters , rare pictures and significant great achievements , the most important among them is getting worldwide advanced ranks of the University of Baghdad and the congratulation of Prime Minister Mr. Nuri al-Maliki to our university after the enormous progress of the website of Baghdad University in the “Webometrics Ranking”, and “QS “. Website team has documented this important cultural event with a series of photos.
