Basra

Al-Farahidi Statue

Statue of Al-Khalil bin Ahmed Al-Farahidi, founder of Al-Nahw, Arabic lexicons and presentations, and the owner of the first Arabic lexicon with clear formations on the letters of the Quran. It is located in the Al-Ashar area and was made by the artist sculptor Nidaa Kazem.

Basra Museum

In the Basra Museum, you will find hundreds of precious artifacts dating back to the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian and Islamic civilizations since thousands of years BC. All antiquities therein are preserved in an exemplary way, comparable to international methods of preserving valuable collectibles and antiquities, and they have been distributed according to their chronological period …

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Shanasheel Al-Basra

Shanasheel was known in Iraq, according to specialists, in the seventeenth century AD, and it started to compete palm trees in demonstrating the aesthetic identity of the Iraqi cities. It was considered one of the landmarks of these historical cities. The Shanasheel, as the specialists say, are wooden decorated balconies that accentuate the entire second …

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Al-Sayyab House

The age of this house is more than 200 years, because it was built around 1800 AD. In this house, al-Sayyab was born in 1926 AD and died at the age of 38. The house is located in the village of Jikor in the district of Abi al-Khasib, approximately 20 km south of Basra.