Baghdad – IA
Today, Thursday, the Governor of Baghdad, Abdul Muttalib Al-Alawi, discussed with the heritage historian Rifaat Marhoon Al-Saffar, the enrichment of heritage and libraries with knowledge publications.
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The Baghdad Governorate media stated in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA), that “The Governor of Baghdad, Abdul Muttalib Al-Alawi, visited the Baghdadi researcher and heritage historian Rifaat Marhoon Al-Saffar to check on his health and talk about his cultural biography and the scientific and knowledge products he presented and publications that contributed to enriching the Baghdadi heritage and specialized libraries.”
He added, “The visit comes within the governor’s approach to paying attention to historians, researchers, and the cultural scene, as Al-Saffar is a rare case in Iraq, as he lit his ninety-fifth candle days ago. Therefore, he is considered one of the oldest Baghdadi researchers in life, and he is now writing his new book, “Stars in My Life, Part Five.”
She continued: “He was born in the “Sababigh Al” locality in Baghdad in 1929, and his father is the well-known poet Marhoon Al-Saffar. He was known for practicing sports in the forties and fifties, playing table tennis, badminton, tennis, and athletics.
He published many books that talk about Baghdad, the most famous of which is “The Shops of Old Baghdad in Memory,” of which more than five editions were issued, as well as the book “Mahalla Sababeegh Al-Aal and its environs” and “Heritages in Memory.” He published dozens of articles in various Iraqi and Arab newspapers and wrote about literature. Children last year won the “Naji Jawad Al-Saati” competition for travel literature in its thirteenth session, and he was the first living researcher to donate a library to the Baghdadi Cultural Center on Al-Mutanabbi Street to be available to researchers, scholars and students of knowledge, which is an important archive about Baghdad and contains many anecdotes. “.
He pointed out that “the visit witnessed the presence of the director of the Baghdadi Cultural Center, Talib Issa.”
