The University of Basrah honored a delegation consisting of (25) of its graduates of previous years from the Kingdom of Bahrain after they received an invitation from the university to visit and honor them as Arab graduates who contributed to university life and transferring the experience and expertise gained to their countries of origin in specializations and years they spent.
Regarding the atmosphere of celebration and honoring, the University President, Prof. Dr. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, said, "We were honored by the visit of a delegation of our university graduates in the seventies of the last century in order to honor them as an extension of the honoring ceremony for university students that we held on the first of last December and who were not able to attend due to matters related to obtaining the Iraqi visa at that time, and they came to return gratitude and credit for their university, which embraced them and provided them with knowledge.
The delegation's feelings were filled with joy and pleasure as they recalled their academic past and memories of places. Dr. Saeed Al-Alawi, a lecturer in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Bahrain, who holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Basrah, recalls his memory by saying: I graduated more than forty years ago in 1978 from the College of Science at the University of Basrah. There were groups that preceded me many years ago. I still remember there were African students, Pakistanis, Palestinians, Lebanese, and from various other Gulf countries. It was the best years of life that we spent here. The houses of Basris were open to us as expatriate students as they are now. May God have mercy on our dead teachers and grant long life and health for those who still alive. I am happy that Iraq has regained its health and self-confidence, and I am happy with the status that my mother university has reached, which has embraced me with nearly (400) other Bahraini students, some of whom have assumed government leadership positions in Bahrain or in the private sector.
Mr. Sharaf Al-Moussawi works as a director in one of the internal audit institutions in the Kingdom of Bahrain. He says: Our visit came in homage to our university and to our beloved Basra as we were longing for its past and present. We spent the prime of our youth in Basra and our appreciation for the city of Basra, which we inhabited for four years, and our appreciation for Iraq. I cannot forget that opportunity that the University of Basrah gave us, which benefited us in our practical life and became a starting point for us towards higher positions.
