The College of Dentistry at Wasit University held a cultural symposium entitled (The importance of cultural identity in the survival and development of peoples and the danger of their disappearance)

The symposium aimed to benefit from the creative efforts of young people and the extent of intellectuals’ belief in the movement and growth of their society according to global concepts based on dismantling the structures of inherited cultural concepts that isolate the movement and growth of society, which set sacred things in mind and reject development.

The symposium, in which Dr. Jassam Muhammad Al-Saeedi, a researcher and author in psychology and sociology and director of the Preventive Media Center at the al-Abbas Shrine, lectured, included two topics: the first was the importance of cultural identity, and the second was the components of cultural identity.