Dear students, our esteemed and distinguished professors,
With the highest sense of friendship, love, and pride, we welcome you at the dawn of your academic year 2025/2026, which we hope will be a year filled with academic excellence and academic giving within the confines of your esteemed university, the generous University of Basra, which has provided our beloved country and the countries of the region with solid scientific and academic competencies and continues to play a pivotal role in various fields.
Our beloved sons,
Your presence in the university halls and classrooms does not merely mean receiving academic lessons. Rather, it must be accompanied by a sense of national responsibility toward our beloved country and our vital issues, and by rejecting everything that would weaken our national unity and the bond between the people of our beloved homeland.
Our esteemed teachers... guardians of knowledge, custodians of science, and makers of the future.
You have been entrusted with a great and priceless mission: the responsibility of educating minds, refining souls, fostering high aspirations, and guiding the next generation toward a better tomorrow.
This is the mission of building human beings academically and behaviorally, instilling noble values, and igniting the spark of creativity in souls.
My dear brothers,
Turn your classrooms into laboratories for free thought, platforms for constructive dialogue, and centers for self-rediscovery.
We ask God Almighty alone to bestow upon our beloved country security, safety, and prosperity. He is the best Lord.
Your brother,
Assistant Professor Dr. Wissam Juma Lafta
Dean of the College of Education for the Humanities
University of Basra
