On Friday 14 June 2024, the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, visited the Syriac Catholic Church’s Diocese of Australia and New Zealand, where he was received by the Diocese’s Apostolic Visitor, Mor Baselios Gorgis al-Qass Musa.
Oghanna was accompanied on his visit by a delegation from the Yonan Hozaya Center for Research and Future Studies, which included Adib Goga, Adil Danno and Medhat al-Bazi. The two parties discussed the Syriac cultural reality in the Kurdistan Region and Iraq, as well as the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts’ activities in various regions of the homeland where our people are present.
Oghanna stressed during the visit 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.
At the conclusion of the visit, Mor Baselios Gorgis al-Qass Musa presented the visiting delegation a copy of his new book series, “The Quatrain of the Eighty,” published in three volumes.
It is worth noting that the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, is visiting the Australian cities of Melbourne and Sydney at the official invitation of the Yonan Hozaya Center 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 the country.
