On Wednesday, December 24, 2025, Professor Dr. Hamid Ibrahim Al-Rashidi (as member and supervisor), Assistant Professor Yasser Ibrahim Hammadi (as member), and Assistant Professor Zina Salem Youssef (as member) from the College of Fine Arts at the University of Mosul participated in the Master’s thesis defense committee at the University of Duhok for student Dadvan Mohammed Sharif. The thesis was entitled “The Dialectical Relationship Between Idea and Cultural Environment in Contemporary Plastic Arts in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.”

The defense committee consisted of the following members:

• Assistant Prof. Dr. Sami Ismail Mustafa / Chair

• Assistant Prof. Yasser Ibrahim Hammadi / Member

• Assistant Prof. Zina Salem Youssef / Member

• Prof. Dr. Hamid Ibrahim Al-Rashidi / Member and Supervisor

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