On Wednesday 13 March 2024, the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, received the US Consul General in Erbil, Mark Straw, at the Syriac Heritage Museum in Ankawa District Centre. He was accompanied by Assistant Head of the Mission of the United States Agency for International Development in Iraq, Nancy Godfrey, in the presence of the Director of Syriac Heritage and Museum, Bernard Youssef. Together, they reviewed the projects implemented by the museum in cooperation with the agency.
The two guests toured the corridors of the museum and were briefed on the progress made in the projects that the museum is implementing in cooperation with the agency, especially the project “Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Minorities in Iraq” sponsored by USAID, which enabled the General Directorate to archive the Syriac heritage and make it accessible to researchers.
It is worth noting that, in October 2023, the Syriac Heritage Museum witnessed the launch of the second phase of the project “Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Minorities in Iraq” in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Antiquities Coalition.
