On Tuesday 18 June 2024, the Duhok Director of Syriac Culture and Arts, Raed Girgis Oraha, participated in the funeral ceremony of scholar and historian Benjamin Haddad, which was held at his birthplace in the Nineveh Plain’s Alqosh district.
The Kurdistan Regional Government’s General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts mourns the great scholar and historian Benjamin Haddad, who passed away on the morning of Monday 17 June 2024, due to an incurable illness at a hospital in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s Dohuk Governorate.