The University of Basrah recently witnessed the emergence of a scientific research movement in which many academics, researchers and scholars from Arab and Western universities from different countries participated.
This movement was not limited to communicating through cyberspace by giving specialized academic scientific lectures via electronic platforms, but the university also witnessed a prominent presence of researchers from Europe, America and Japan, especially those interested in Orientalist studies despite the difficult health conditions that accompanied the Corona pandemic.
The university organized meetings and dialogues with researchers, including a dialogue with the German researcher Larissa Bender from (Universität zu Köln) and the English researcher Camille Lyans Cole University of Cambridge.
In addition to the attendance lectures, including the Japanese orientalist Itsumu Okada's (The Iraqis Image and their History in Japanese Memory) and the doctoral student Gabriel Young's lecture, (Gabriel Young, PhD Candidate in History and Middle Eastern Studied at New York University), entitled: (Reconstruction of Basrah Date Trade and the Relationship between the Central State and Local Capitalists During the Global Crisis 1930/1939).
In light of this openness to the world’s universities, the President of the University of Basrah, Prof. Saad Shaheen Hammadi, directed to provide (100) free scholarships to Arab and foreign students for the academic year 2021-2022 and in all disciplines. These scholarships included great facilities for applicants, including the the scholarships are free and the provision of adequate housing.
International organizations in the field of education were approached to publish the Basrah University scholarship announcement, as the application link was published for a period of 21 days. The number of applicants reached (509) applicants from (41) countries around the world, including: Saudi Arabia, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon, France, China, Turkey, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Iran, the Philippines, Colombia, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, South Africa, Ghana, Mali, Benin, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal and others.
