Category: Latest News

  • Basra Museum

    July 16, 2021
    We are delighted to announce the release of our new film The Epic Story of a New Museum for Basra:…
  • Chadirji: The Baghdad Trend Setter

    March 4, 2021
    Most people knew Rifat as a renowned architect and researcher, however, for several decades many also recognised him as a…
  • Sherqatis outside their tent at Abu Salabikh, 1978. (Image courtesy of Dr Ellen McAdam)

    November 24, 2020
    The British Institute for the Study of Iraq is interested in collecting your reminiscences and stories about growing up, living…
  • Basrah Museum

    October 14, 2020
    The British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI) and the Friends of Basrah Museum (FOBM) have announced that they…
  • The Palaces at Nimrud

    August 18, 2020
    Thanks to generous support from an anonymous donor, BISI has begun to catalogue the archive.
  • Jews of Iraq Conference

    July 28, 2020
    This major international conference took place between 16 and 18 September 2019. Organised by The British Institute for the Study…
  • The Trustees of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq were deeply saddened to hear of the sudden death of Dr Lamia Al Gailani-Werr last Friday 18 January 2019 in Amman, Jordan.

    April 5, 2019
    The Trustees of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq were deeply saddened to hear of the sudden death…
  • Geoffrey Turner 1941-2018

    December 12, 2018
    Obituary: Geoffrey Turner, one of the foremost authorities on the architecture of the Neo-Assyrian empire, passed away in Brussels on…
  • Nimrud, NW Palace. Courtesy of the Oxford Archaeology Image Database

    September 28, 2017
    British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI) can announce the start of an important initiative to digitise and release…

  • January 6, 2017
    Basrah: its history, culture and heritage workshop and conference to celebrate the opening of Basrah Museum