On Tuesday 17 September 2024, the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, received Prof. Sargon Hasso, an academic at the Illinois Institute of Technology in the United States of America, at the Directorate’s building in Ankawa District Centre.
The two parties discussed the most prominent activities and events organised by the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts, especially after the success of the First Athra Syriac Symposium, which was organised by the Directorate and the Yonan Hozaya Centre for Research and Future Studies, for the period from 5 to 8 September, in Erbil, the capital of the Iraqi Kurdistan Region.
Dr. Sargon Hasso participated in the Symposium’s activities with a study presented in English.
At the end of the meeting, Oghanna presented the visiting guest with a copy of issue 51 of Banipal magazine, which is issued quarterly by the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
