MOC: Next June will witness the resumption of tourism activity in Iraq

Baghdad - INA

The Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Hassan Nadhim, said that the seed of enlightenment in Iraq is still present.
This came during a virtual lecture on the ZOOM application and a number of electronic platforms, followed by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), today, Thursday, hosted by the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies, and moderated by Dr. Saud Al-Sarhan, who described Dr. Hassan Nadhim as the first academic intellectual to undertake a cultural mission to rebuild What has been destroyed by wars, siege and chaos, and healing the wounds caused by disasters in Iraqi culture, and he added that he is trying to heal what caused the migration of Iraqi intellectuals, according to a program announced by the Ministry of Culture in addition to being a writer, critics, academic and responsible for neglected tourism and antiquities.
The minister began the lecture by talking about the ministry's efforts to recover the stolen and looted antiquities, saying: Our country has gone through unnatural conditions that led to the theft and looting of antiquities spanning a wide geographical area, and it was subjected to random exhumation in some areas.