The College of Education / Qurna at the University of Basra organised the fifth international scientific conference of the Department of Arabic Language entitled (Arabic and the Curriculum Question) in the presence of the Assistant President of the University of Basra for Scientific Affairs, Prof. Ali Hussein Rashak and the Dean of the College, Dr. Ali hit Shaaban and his scientific and administrative assistants, heads of college departments, Vice President of the Basra Provincial Council, Mr. Osama Al-Saad, member of the Basra Provincial Council, Engineer Iyad Obaid Al-Maliki, Mayor of Qurna District, Mr. Abdul Majeed Al-Hassan, Lukoil Relations Manager and his accompanying delegation, as well as other personalities.

The conference aimed to demonstrate the scientific and research efforts that contributed to the development of curricula in linguistic and critical studies in their various historical stages to contemporary, as well as the scientific mechanisms for the development of these curricula. Thus, it is an attempt to be serious and proficient in questioning curricula on the one hand, and evaluating their theoretical and procedural frameworks on the other.The conference included the participation of scholars of the Arabic language from Iraq and the Arab world, most notably the well-known critic Yassin Al-Naseer, Prof. Dr. Saeed Jassim Al-Zubaidi, Professor at the University of Nizwa in Oman, Prof. Dr. Emad Ali Abdul Latif, Professor at Qatar University, and a group of professors from our prestigious Iraqi universities who participated in delivering twenty-five scientific research in multiple scientific axes, related to the ancient and modern Arabic curricula between the two discourses: Scientific and educational, the axis of Arabic and historical memory, Arabic and the question of identity, Arabic rhetoric and the question of the method, as well as the problem of methodological overlap in the modern critical lesson in theory and procedure. The conference recommended the need to modernize language teaching curricula and teaching methods by returning to specialized scientific competencies in updating and developing curricula. Department of Media and Government Communication.