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Iraqi News
3 days ago
- Business
- Iraqi News
Culture Minister announces price reductions to support tourism
Baghdad-INA Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities Ahmed Fakak al-Badrani announced on Saturday that the ministry has provided numerous facilities to support tourism in Iraq, including reduced transportation, hotel, and restaurant fares, he also noted that tourism has witnessed a significant boom during the current government's tenure. Al-Badrani told the Iraqi News Agency (INA), "The Ministry of Culture has a large and busy program under the patronage of the Prime Minister, and activities are ongoing to improve the reality of tourism, restore many antiquities, open many tourist cities, and open hotels in cooperation with Iraqi Airways in order to give applicants an opportunity by reducing travel fees and agreeing with the hotels affiliated with the ministry to reduce hotel and restaurant fees as factors to attract tourism." He pointed out that "tourism has witnessed a significant renaissance during the current government's term, and our ambition is even greater for tourism to become a permanent and sustainable resource that provides significant sums to the Iraqi budget, given the presence of a large and diverse tourism attraction." He added, "Iraq attracts Arab, Western, and European tourists for archaeological, recreational, and therapeutic tourism, such as the sulfur springs in Anbar, Mosul, and Karbala, as well as religious tourism in cities such as Karbala, Najaf, Baghdad, and Mosul,also in Basra are Rabia al-Adawiya, al-Hasan al-Basri, and Ibn Sirin, and in Baghdad are al-Kadhimiya, al-Nu'man, al-Junayd al-Baghdadi, and al-Saqti, as well as many other religious heritage sites. These tourism factors have prompted the government of Mohammed Shia al-Sudani to devote great attention to these sites in order to attract tourists." Al-Fakak confirmed, "We have provided many facilities to attract Arab and foreign tourists, and soon Iraqi Airways will announce a reduction in fares, now that the Arab Summit has concluded successfully, hotels will reduce prices, and many restaurants will also offer promotions, serving Baghdadi, Mosuli, Basrai and other dishes to Arab and European tourists."
Iraqi News
5 days ago
- Politics
- Iraqi News
Baghdad will be named the Capital of Culture for the Islamic World 2026 shortly by the Minister of Culture
Baghdad - INA Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities Ahmed Fakak Al-Badrani confirmed today, Thursday, that Baghdad will soon be announced as the Capital of Culture of the Islamic World for 2026. He emphasized the need for everyone to cooperate in making Baghdad a clean city intellectually, mentally, emotionally, and environmentally. The Prime Minister's representative, Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities Ahmed Fakak Al-Badrani, said in a speech during the Baghdad Arab Tourism Capital conference, attended by an Iraqi News Agency (INA) correspondent: "Tourism is not a project of a body or a ministry. Rather, tourism begins with the individual, then the institution, society, and the state. The private sector partners with the public sector, and culture and antiquities intertwine, creating significant attractions." He added, "These elements open their arms to those coming from every deep valley, because this blessed land contains springs of civilization whose roots history has planted deep within the earth, so that city upon city and civilization upon civilization arose. The deeper we go into the earth, the more we find Iraqi civilizations, the civilizations of Mesopotamia , whose roots are unknown in antiquity. Some say they are only a few thousand years old, but rather they are deep within this land." He pointed out, "Perhaps some might think that because I am the Minister of Culture, Tourism, and Antiquities, because I am an Iraqi, more glorious than Iraqi civilizations, these words are the words of Westerners who have explored, researched, and studied, including the British, Italians, Germans, French, Americans, and Spanish, who wrote and loved this, and who believe that eternity lies in this land because the thought there is authentic, and because the roots of thought there are deep-rooted." Al-Badrani explained that, 'Since the government of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani began its program, which focused most of its attention on services, we sought to present the Ministry of Culture with the ancient and authentic culture of Iraq. We removed the dust of the past few years, which hindered cultural activities due to the calamities and illnesses that Iraq experienced. We actually succeeded in getting culture back on its feet strongly.' He pointed out that, 'In the field of tourism, we saw that Baghdad had to recover day after day, so we promoted tourism activities, which had been paralyzed for more than four decades since the Iran-Iraq war and the subsequent siege, followed by the occupation, and the subsequent sectarian strife that followed the occupation, and then the occupation of large parts of Iraq by terrorist organizations.'
National News
25-04-2025
- Business
- National News
Aoun receives invitation from Iraqi President to attend upcoming Arab Summits in Baghdad
NNA – President of the Republic, General Joseph Aoun, on Friday received a written letter from Iraqi President, Abdul Latif Jamal Rashid, delivered by Iraqi Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed Fakak Al-Badrani. The letter included an official invitation for President Aoun to attend the 34th regular session of the Arab League Summit and the 5th Arab Economic and Social Development Summit, both scheduled to take place in Baghdad (Dar Al-Salam) on Saturday, May 17. The message expressed hope that the summits would contribute to strengthening joint Arab action and achieving the aspirations of Arab peoples amid current regional challenges. 'Your Excellency's participation would have a significant impact on advancing Arab cooperation and achieving our shared goals for stability, prosperity, and the protection of our peoples' interests,' the letter stated. Minister Al-Badrani conveyed greetings from President Rashid and Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al-Sudani and expressed their hopes that President Aoun would accept the invitation. He also reaffirmed the deep bilateral ties between Lebanon and Iraq. President Aoun thanked Minister Al-Badrani for the visit and asked him to convey his greetings to both President Rashid and Prime Minister Al-Sudani. He affirmed the strength of Lebanese-Iraqi relations and the mutual will to enhance cooperation across all fields. The minister was accompanied by Chargé d'Affaires of the Iraqi Embassy in Beirut, Nada Karim Majoul, and Mr. Mohammad Fares from the embassy's protocol department.
Iraqi News
27-02-2025
- Iraqi News
Minister of Culture: We have made great strides in recovering our stolen and smuggled antiquities
Baghdad-INA The Minister of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities, Ahmed Fakak Al-Badrani, announced today, Thursday, that great strides have been made in recovering Iraq's stolen and smuggled antiquities. Al-Badrani said during the celebration of Baghdad as the Arab Tourism Capital, which was organized by the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI), and attended by the correspondent of the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "We meet to say the most beautiful phrases about Baghdad, the enchantress of the world, as Baghdad is present in hearts and thoughts and all books and poems, as it is the mother of poetry and thought, and there is no limit to the creators who lived in Baghdad, as it was intended by everyone who wanted to acquire knowledge, literature and its various specializations and sciences," indicating that "the Baghdad School was unique in jurisprudence, language, literature, readings and maqam." He added that "the government has taken it upon itself in this formation headed by Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, to remove the dust from two full decades, as the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities has achieved great and known steps and we were able to recover our stolen and smuggled antiquities, as thousands of antiquities were returned to Baghdad because it is the true identity of any country." He continued that "when we enter international museums, we find from our Iraqi antiquities what enhances the value of the museum and raises its scientific and archaeological level and it is said in it from the lands of Akkad, Sumer, Babylon and Assyria, and here Baghdad is the university of all these civilizations." He pointed out that "looking at the Islamic civilization, we find al-Mustansiriya, the Abbasid Palace and the entire Baghdad Plain area, many of which we have rebuilt with the efforts of the Prime Minister and his team, and we have also started the third phase of rehabilitating Rashid Street."
