In the presence of the President of Basra University, Prof. Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, and the Dean of the College of Arts, Prof. Dr. Majid Abdul Hamid Al-Kaabi, and the Dean Assistant for Scientific Affairs, Prof. Dr. Haider Abdul-Ridha Al-Tamimi, the History Department headed by Prof. Dr. Hussein Abdul Qadir Mohi, and in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit headed by the Assistant Professor Dr. Raghad Faisal Abdel-Wahab in the Faculty of Arts, hosted one of the pillars of diplomacy in contemporary Iraq, Prof. Dr. Mahmoud Ali Al-Daoud, and the session was run by Prof. Dr. Nazem Rashem Maatouk.
Al-Daoud gave a valuable lecture on the situation of Iraq a hundred years after the establishment of the modern Iraqi state, and his role and contributions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since the royal era, through subsequent covenants that qualified him to assume many important positions, including carrying out the Iraqi work in Washington and the United Nations, the Iraqi ambassador to Turkey and a representative for Iraqi presidents in many international forums, the last of which is the head of the Department of Political and Strategic Studies in the House of Wisdom.
This meeting is considered one of the important ones to introduce a symbol of diplomacy in Iraq, as well as to explain the contributions of the House of Wisdom in the research and authorship.
