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Masarat Foundation forCultural and media development MCMDreleased a new Referencebook in the framework of the project to promote pluralism in Iraq.
The book, titled “Policies and ethnic groups in Iraq since the Ottoman rule until the present time” included ten chapters of ten specialized researchers from inside Iraq, Ashraf by Iraqi academic and edited “Saad Salloum”.
The book is an academic reference on policies and ethnic groups in Iraq, dating to shift from a system Ahl AL-Thimma under Islamic Arab state to millet system in the Ottoman period and then map of religious pluralism and nationalism during the period of the national state and the establishment of a system of citizenship.
It represents a contribution of privacy in his attempt to draw attention to the role of universities in promoting pluralism, as it summarizes the contributions made by the Academy of researchers representing different Iraqi universities, from the University of Basra in the far south of Iraq to the University of Dohuk in the far north.
It is working Academic first of its kind, which includes such a collective effort to the team of researchers in the paths Foundation, in a way confirms the importance of the opening of universities to society, and that these scientific forums become ideas factories do not just recipient of negative political and religious influence of the campus of the effectiveness of an assumed during the previous years, to move the stagnant waters after having been reduced to a mere ivory towers separate from the concerns of the community and transformations.
The book represents an attempt to fill a gap in the understanding of pluralism and creative diversity was preceded by steps in the context of the project paths to promote pluralism in Iraq, a project held out faith in the fact that “pluralism” safety valve against the division of Iraq and the region on the basis of Atnotaúfah, it is without the richness of pluralism and creative diversity and mixing groups together, We will be at the mono culture Tnhishha differences and divisions on the purity of a single identity (sectarian).
The project has crystallized in a series of books and previous versions, since the magazine was launched in 2005, tracks which celebrated pluralism in customized private numbers of Jews, Christians, Yazidis, and Mandaeans, and other components.
As well as the production of a series of documentary films in the same context, such as: a minority at risk in 2011 and minorities in the wind in 2013, and finally issuing a series of special studies on pluralism in Iraq included the following books:
1-minorities in Iraq-memory, identity, challenges. 2-different and equal to: international and national frameworks for the rights of minorities in Iraq. 3. Creative diversity – Road Map to promote pluralism in Alarac.4-Christians in Iraq – a comprehensive history and current challenges. 5. hundred They all minorities in Iraq, and finally the current book: policies and ethnic groups in Iraq.
