The scholarship Ph.D. student, Luqa Sabaih Jajji Marouki, a faculty member at the College of Fine Arts, University of Mosul, has achieved a distinguished scientific milestone by earning her Ph.D. from the Sorbonne University in France for her dissertation entitled: “The Qawwal Musicians in the Communal Pilgrimage of the Yazidi Community in Northern Iraq: An Ethnomusicological Approach.”

The dissertation, which falls within the field of ethnomusicology, provides an in-depth analytical and field study of the musical and ritual role performed by the “Qawwals” during the communal pilgrimage ceremonies of the Yazidi community, utilizing the tools of ethnomusicology to document this unique Iraqi cultural heritage.

The researcher received special congratulations from the defense committee, which praised the academic rigor of the presentation and the qualitative findings reached by the study.

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