Cultural activities of the Christian component in Iraq from the late nineteenth century until 1939

Abstract

Culture is considered one of the important element in shaping the historical events as it is considered a mirror that reflects the historical facts leading to many changes in the life communities. In spite of its importance , it did not receive much attention from researchers.This study comes within the context of what we started in our MA thesis-entitled (The Christians Of Iraq And Their Role In The Modern History Of Iraq From 1921 To 1958), which involves studying the historical relics of the Christians in the political, economic and social fields.Due to the amplitude of the topics of the thesis and time constraints, we didn,t have the chance to study the cultural activity of the Iraqi Christians; hence, we find it appropriate to complete the study of their role sfforts in this area and to reflect another bright picture of Iraqs history. The time frame of the study begins with the late nineteenth century AD-because Iraq had witnessed in this period the early modern civilization of presses, newspapers magazines, theaters, schools and other cultural elements in which the Iraqi Christians played a prominent role- and sums up in 1939, where was the beginning of World War 11 and what accompanied phase of events in the history of Iraq at various levels.