The Iraqi Manuscripts: Their Reality, Institutions, and Challenges

This intervention deals with the intellectual contents of Mesopotamia libraries, which are among the most famous libraries established during human history, and exposes these contents and the sciences in which valuable books, manuscripts, and millions of volumes were collected to operations of erasure in horrific ways throughout the ages, and the grind of this cultural battle is still taking place today against Iraq's cultural infrastructure par excellence. There is no doubt that with the advent of the U.S. occupation in 2003, and the accompanying sabotage, looting, and burning of many of the collections and holdings of Iraqi libraries, what is wanted is to obliterate the landmarks of human civilization carried by Iraq in its libraries and which are often the cost of preserving them are very harsh, but despite this, these institutions rise again.