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Iraq 07/04/2024
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Earlier this week, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani inaugurated the Sheikh Ahmed al-Waili Museum and Center, which was completed by the Baghdad Municipality. The Baghdad Municipality acquired al-Waili’s house, located in al-Atifiyah in central Baghdad, and completely rehabilitated it, while preserving its heritage character, as part of a plan to transform the homes of influential figures into cultural centers.
Director of Cultural Forums at the Baghdad Municipality, Khawla Musa, told Al-Sabah: “The Baghdad Municipality acquires the homes of influential figures in Iraq and the Arab world, and the al-Waili project is the second project, after the al-Jawahiri House project in al-Qadisiyah neighborhood.” She added, “The al-Waili House was acquired in 2014, and designs and plans were prepared to transform the three parts of the house and make arches to open the halls to ensure the smooth flow of visitors. The house begins with a photo hall that documents the stages of Sheikh al-Waili’s life, then a hall for holding seminars and conferences, and another consisting of two parts that includes personal documents such as personal documents, pens, certificates, and the sheikh’s security file.”
“The belongings were collected from Sheikh Al-Waili’s family and from the Al-Waili Foundation,” she continued, explaining, “The upper floor of the house includes three halls: the first is a library for reading, which includes Sheikh Al-Waili’s books and what was written about him. The second includes a digital display that contains the Sheikh’s personal files, digitally preserved and available to researchers. The third includes a cultural training center with various topics, including human development, personal skills, teaching public speaking, and others, which correct negative aspects in society, in a way that embodies Sheikh Al-Waili’s message
and one of his goals.”
Musa pointed out that “Beit Al-Waili is under the management of the Cultural Forums Division of the Baghdad Municipality, and this division includes a number of expropriated and heritage houses,” and revealed that “future projects will include the rehabilitation of some heritage houses affiliated with the Baghdad Municipality and converting them into museums and tourist facilities, including the Thousand and One Nights Museum, the Wax Museum in the White Palace, the Royal Cars Museum in Al-Zawraa Park, the Zaha Hadid Architectural Museum and Center, and new sites that may be attached to the project according to the directives of the Prime Minister and the Mayor of Baghdad, which came after the success of the Baghdad Municipality in preparing the requirements for converting the two aforementioned houses.”
For his part, Dr. Wael Al-Taie, head of the Sheikh Al-Waili family team supervising the museum and cultural center, confirmed that the establishment of the center came from the wills and goals of Sheikh Al-Waili.
Al-Taie told Al-Sabah: “The family of the dean of the Husseini pulpit had the idea of transforming the house of the dean of the family, preacher Dr. Sheikh Ahmed Al-Waili, in the capital, Baghdad, into a museum of scientific heritage, a cultural center, and an intellectual institution, based on his most important social recommendations and directives in his purposeful speeches, in which he called for the establishment of intellectual centers and social institutions that would enhance educational and social values.”
He added, “The family of the dean of the Husseini pulpit took the initiative to transform this house into a museum and cultural center, with the aim of preserving his collections, cognitive effects, and intellectual legacy, following the example of the great people of the countries, their influencers, and their unique personalities.” He continued, “The initiative was launched in 2011 by submitting a request to the Baghdad Municipality to transform the house into a museum and cultural center. In 2014, the Baghdad Municipality completed the procedures for acquiring the house, and in 2022, the municipality launched the steps to begin maintaining, rehabilitating, and reconstructing the house and equipping it to be a museum and cultural center.”
Al-Taie - who is the grandson of Sheikh Al-Waili from his mother's side - pointed out that "in 2024, the initial official protocol opening of the museum was held by the Prime Minister, and next September, work will be done to make it the date for the general opening of the museum and the cultural center." He pointed out that the work team from the Baghdad Municipality and the Sheikh Al-Waili family supervision team from the initial preparations were able to prepare only (4) wings for the museum, out of (11) wings, indicating that "within the next (100) days, the work team from the Baghdad Municipality and the Sheikh Al-Waili family supervision team intend to expedite the completion of the preparation of the remaining (11) wings."
Editing: Muhammad Al-Ansari
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