University of Basrah Organizes Workshop on Learning the Persian Language
The College of Arts at the University of Basrah organized a workshop on learning the Persian language as a language of war discourse in 2026.
The workshop aimed to familiarize participants with the military vocabulary and terminology used by officials of the Islamic Republic of Iran and by wartime media during the American-Iranian conflict, with the purpose of establishing these expressions as key terms within official discourse.
The workshop included a lecture delivered by faculty member Shahad Rahim Maktouf, who presented and analyzed a number of video excerpts featuring speeches by Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Zulfiqar Ebrahimi, spokesperson for the Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters, in order to enable translators and researchers to better understand the structure of contemporary Iranian wartime discourse.
Department of Media and Government Communication
