The Department of Arabic Language at the College of Education for Human Sciences - University of Basra organized a seminar on the visual narrative text in light of environmental criticism or eco-criticism.
The seminar aimed to introduce environmental criticism, reveal the place of the environment in creative work, and monitor the visions of creative people in their treatment of the environment.
The seminar presented by doctoral student Muhammad Abdel Karim Jassim showed that environmental criticism is one of the topics that stimulates thought and creativity and is a material and moral incubator that expresses beings. The more diverse its issues, the more diverse its approaches. It employs most of the critical approaches in its treatment of creative texts, and aims to read the literary text, process these texts, and analyze them to reveal The visual human being’s relationship with his environment, such as male dominance over the environment and women, or the oppressive action of authority or opportunistic society against the oppressed class.

