On Wednesday 12 June 2024, the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, visited Mar Benyamin Elia, Bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East’s Victoria and New Zealand Diocese. This was in the presence of Hume City Council member and former Hume City Mayor Joseph Haweil, who is one of our people.
Oghanna was accompanied on his visit by the head of the Yonan Hozaya Center for Research and Future Studies, Kamel Kunda, and the two sides discussed the Syriac cultural reality in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, as well as the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts’ activities in the various areas where our people are present in the homeland.
During the visit, Oghanna stressed that the General Directorate’s doors are open to cooperation with all individuals and institutions related to our people in Iraq and the diaspora, in order to support and develop the Syriac cultural reality in the homeland.
It is worth noting that the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, is visiting the Australian city of Melbourne at the official invitation of the Yonan Hozaya Center for Research and Future Studies and the Suraya Cultural Forum, to talk about our people’s cultural and artistic scene in the homeland, through a number of events and meetings that bring him together with our expatriate people in Australia.
