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His Majesty King Faisal II Al-Hashimi of Iraq and Colonel Mohammed Yahya meet Jamie Capell, a "Huckleberry Finn." From photograph album, "Visit of his Majesty the King of Iraq and his Royal Highness the Regent of Iraq to the United States of America, August 12 to September 8, 1952." Image courtesy of: Harry S. Truman Library & Museum

Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Lecture

Dr Eva Miller on ‘Eden in America: Exhibiting, Performing, and Imagining Iraq between Two Nations’

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October 23, 2023

Annual General Meeting

Annual General Meeting

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.