In the midst of a joyful ceremony and in the presence of official, cultural and artistic figures, and the founder of the cultural center in the seventies of the last century, the retired professor Dr. Farouk Saleh Al-Omar, the cultural center at the University of Basrah opened a carpentry workshop and a sewing workshop, as well as a printing shop and an exhibition for direct sales that includes handicraft and artistic works for people of determination (disabled people) after the rehabilitation of the halls complex.
Director of the Cultural Center, Dr. Abdel Karim Aboud Odeh, said at the opening ceremony, "Today we celebrate the reconstruction of the hall complex in the center, which includes a large conference hall, a multi-purpose hall that provides various services, a lecture hall, as well as a hall for experimental theater performances and a hall for plastic arts exhibitions."
Odeh added - Today, we have put into practice the project to integrate people of determination into society, a project that represents a challenge and work for an effective collective spirit to build human capabilities and care for a segment designated by God to be creative and to show its creativity and to support it. We opened two carpentry and sewing workshops and a reproduction library in cooperation with the College of Administration and Economics and Al-Awael laboratory for pathological analyzes and the unit of rehabilitation and employment at the university.
On the background of the ceremony, the exhibition “Pencil” for the talented deaf artist Anwar Abdul Hamid, the Reading Library and the Art Memory Treasury exhibition in Basra, was opened, and the Children’s Orchestra girls played.
