On Sunday 16 June 2024, the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, met with the delegations of the Assyrian Cultural and Social Youth Association and the Assyrian Student Association, on the sidelines of the seminar that was held in the hall of the Assyrian Sports and Cultural Club in Sydney, Australia.
During the meeting, Oghanna spoke about the importance of modernity and technology in preserving our people’s heritage, and the possibility of investing in these tools to preserve our heritage and language from extinction, as well as supporting education in the mother tongue and developing it in the homeland and abroad.
At the conclusion of his speech, Oghanna stressed the importance of joint cooperation between our people’s institutions at home and abroad, as well as working together to raise the status of our people’s culture together.
It is worth noting that the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, is visiting Australia at an official invitation from the Yonan Hozaya Centre for Research and Future Studies and the Suraya Cultural Forum, to discuss 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 there, in addition to coordinating with our people’s institutions to hold the First Athra Syriac Symposium, which the Directorate intends to hold next September in Erbil Governorate’s Ankawa District.


