University of Duhok Signs a trilateral MoU
April 24, 2016, 6:24 a.m.

As a part of the University of Duhok strategy to promoting and strengthening response to protection of cultural heritage at the regional and country level, the President of the University of Duhok Prof. Mosleh Duhoky signed MoU with the Smithsonian Institute and the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States of America for this goal. For this endeavor Dr. Katharyn Hanson from the Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology of the University of Pennsylvania paid a visit to the University of Duhok on the 19th of April 2016 . The MoU is supporting capacity building and training of staff that are working on heritage, and providing opportunities for dialogue on topics related to cultural heritage.

Dr. Shireen Ismael from the College of Spatial Planning and Applied Science will be the University of Duhok coordinator of this program, she worked previously on protection on cultural heritage with different international organizations.