Nadia Massih is happy to welcome Dr. Omar Mohammad, Professor of Center East Historical past at Sciences Po. All through his childhood, he was not even conscious a Jewish neighborhood ever existed in Iraq. As a historian, he now sees Jewish heritage as inseparable from their nationwide id. The Jewish presence in Iraq is a part of the very material of this area and tradition spanning 2500 years, courting again to the Babylonian Empire. Dr. Omar Mohammad paints a vibrant image of Iraqi Jewish life up till the Nineteen Forties: a neighborhood deeply built-in into cultural, financial, academic and political life.
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