The lecturer in the Department of History at the College of Arts at the University of Basra, Prof. Dr. Alaa Kamel Al-Issawi, headed the discussion committee for a PhD thesis in the College of Education for Human Sciences by the researcher Ahmed Dakhil Khalati and tagged with (Soft Power in the Thought of Imam Hussein, peace be upon him)) by the researcher Ahmed Dakhil Khalati

The thesis was approved with distinction.