On Thursday 13 June 2024, the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, visited the St. Narsai Assyrian Christian College in the city of Sydney, as part of his Australian tour. He was accompanied by a delegation from the Yonan Hozaya Center for Research and Future Studies, which included Adib Goga, Adil Danno and Medhat al-Bazi.
The delegation was received by the school’s chaplain Fr. Shamuel Shamuel, and its director Edwar Dinkha. They toured the school’s departments and laboratories and learned about the experience of teaching the Syriac language there. Oghanna expressed his admiration for teaching in the mother tongue in the school, stressing the importance of teaching future generations in it to preserve it from extinction, especially in diaspora countries far from the homeland.
Oghanna pointed out in his speech that the General Directorate of Syriac Culture and Arts’ doors are open to cooperation with all individuals and institutions related to our people in Iraq and the diaspora, in working to raise the status of Syriac culture, as well as developing it in both the homeland and diaspora.
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 the cultural our people’s artistic scene in the homeland, through a number of events and meetings that bring him together with our expatriate people in the country.
