Iraqi Academy of Sciences
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The Iraqi Academy of Sciences (Arabic: المجمع العلمي العراقي) is an academy in Baghdad founded in 1948 in order to develop and regulate the Arabic language in Iraq and the Arab World.
The Academy also has two other departments to regulate and develop Kurdish and Aramaic (Syriac) in Iraq; those two departments were founded in 1963.
It was looted during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/3697/AlTikriti553.pdf?sequence=2 |title="Stuff Happens": A Brief Overview of the 2003 Destruction of Iraqi Manuscript Collections, Archives, and Libraries |access-date=2011-09-03 |archive-date=2015-05-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150510024454/https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/3697/AlTikriti553.pdf?sequence=2 |url-status=dead }}
The current president is Mohammed Husayn Al Yaseen, Professor of Arabic at University of Baghdad.
See also
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20151222112959/http://www.iraqacademy.iq/ Homepage in Arabic]
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Category:Arabic language regulators
Category:National academies of sciences
Category:1948 establishments in Iraq
Category:Scientific organizations established in 1948
Category:Science and technology in Iraq
Category:Scientific organizations based in Iraq
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