On Tuesday 28 May 2024, the Director General of Syriac Culture and Arts, Kaldo Ramzi Oghanna, and Syriac Heritage and Museum Director Bernard Youssef, received the Senior Advisor to the Charge d’Affaires for Development at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Iraq, Diego Marquez, at the Syriac Heritage Museum in Ankawa District Centre. This was to review the projects implemented by the museum in cooperation with the agency.
The guest toured the museum’s corridors and was briefed on the progress made in the projects that it is implementing in cooperation with the agency, especially the project “Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Minorities in Iraq” sponsored by USAID, which enabled the museum to archive the Syriac heritage and make it accessible to researchers.
It is worth noting that, in October 2023, the Syriac Heritage Museum witnessed the launch of the second phase of the project “Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Minorities in Iraq” in cooperation with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Antiquities Coalition.
