On April 14th, 2021, the 4th international training workshop of the joint Digital cultural heritage (DCH)-the Nahrein Network “Creative Cities” Training Program under the title “Can Creative Cities be Just as Well? The Role of Universities in Addressing Urban Inequities ” was held.
Over 200 participants from 43 different universities and government and non-government associations and organizations from a total of 9 countries (Iraq, Iran, Canada, UK, USA, Israel, Libya, Ethiopia, Sweden) attended the workshop, and locally participants attended from (Sulaymaniyah – Erbil – Kirkuk – Halabja – Koya- Baghdad – Musl – kalar- and Duhok).
The two-and-a-half-hour-long workshop was presented by Dr. Samia Rab Kirchner, Associate Professor at the Morgan State University in Maryland, US.
The Nahrein Network is a collaborative international project between University College London (UCL), University of Oxford, Sulaimani Polytechnic University, and the University of Al-Qadisiyah. The Network is supported by an AHRC Global Challenges Research Fund grant from the UK government