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Monday, October 16, 2023

Lecture

Professor Joseph Sassoon on ‘The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon Dynasty’

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June 19, 2023

Call for Papers

Interdisciplinary Conference – Sustainable Water Management: Learning from the Past to Inform the Future (15th-16th March 2024)

Abdulameer al-Hamdani (right) with John Curtis (left) at Ur in 2008

May 3, 2022

Dr Abdulameer al-Hamdani

The Trustees of the British Institute for the Study of Iraq were deeply saddened to hear of the death of Dr Abdulameer al-Hamdani on Friday April 29th in Nasiriyah, Iraq.

November 16, 2021

BISI Joins BIRI

The British Institute for the Study of Iraq is interested in collecting your reminiscences and stories about growing up, living or working in Iraq in the period up to 1990.

Basra Museum

July 16, 2021

Basrah Museum Film

We are delighted to announce the release of our new film The Epic Story of a New Museum for Basra: Humanity Always Wins.

Chadirji: The Baghdad Trend Setter

March 4, 2021

Chadirji: The Baghdad Trend Setter

Most people knew Rifat as a renowned architect and researcher, however, for several decades many also recognised him as a trend setter in Baghdad. 

Sherqatis outside their tent at Abu Salabikh, 1978. (Image courtesy of Dr Ellen McAdam)
Sherqatis outside their tent at Abu Salabikh, 1978. (Image courtesy of Dr Ellen McAdam)

November 24, 2020

Call for Contributions

The British Institute for the Study of Iraq is interested in collecting your reminiscences and stories about growing up, living or working in Iraq in the period up to 1990.

Basrah Museum

October 14, 2020

Merger News

The British Institute for the Study of Iraq (BISI) and the Friends of Basrah Museum (FOBM) have announced that they are to merge.

The Palaces at Nimrud

August 18, 2020

The Nimrud Archives

Thanks to generous support from an anonymous donor, BISI has begun to catalogue the archive.