College of Arts

A Historical Overview:

After the opening of the College of Arts for Humanities on September 29, 1966, the college was called (The College for Humanities) and it was administratively affiliated with the University of Baghdad until 1967, when the University of Mosul became a separate one. Shortly afterward, the Department of History opened as one of the first four departments that opened at that college, i.e., the Dept. of History, the Dept. of Arabic Language, the Dept. of European Languages, and the Dept. of Economics. The Dept. of History did not have a head, but ʿImᾱd ʿAbdul-Salᾱm, a historian and the then Dean of the College of Arts administrated it for one year. One-year later, Prof. Dr ʿᾹmir Sulaīmᾱn took charge of the department, and next came Dr Mufīd Muḥammad Nurī in 1969, Dr Khīzir al-Durī in 1973.