King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies (KFCRIS), in collaboration with the Center for Research and Intercommunication Knowledge, held a lecture titled "Libraries and Manuscript Repositories – The State of Manuscripts in Iraq: Then and Now," which shed light on the fate of Iraqi libraries from the Abbasid era to the present day.Dr. Ghazi Hamid Mousa reviewed examples of repositories lost during the Mongol invasion and others destroyed in the American occupation, stressing that the loss of these treasures is a blow not only to Iraq but to global heritage