Iraqi Turkmen Artist LAHIB JADDO

"Wish"

Painting by Iraqi Turkmen artist Lahib Jaddo

http://www.alturkmani.com/makalaat/09042006/1.htm

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Fuzuli University Project in Community Design

I belong to an ethnic minority in Iraq called "Turkumani". Since 1923, this ethnic group has lacked the right to teach its own language in Iraq.

I visited Northern Iraq in 2003 in order to establish academic relations between the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University and north Iraqi universities. During this visit, I was asked to help create a design of the first Turkumani University for the city of Kirkuk. This university would be the first Iraqi university to offer courses in the native Turkish language of the Turkumani people, and the design was to be used for fund-raising purposes, and hopefully later for construction.

--Powerpoint Presentation (Large file 18 MB)