The official certificates of the German exams of the Goethe-Institut Irak are now available in digital form. The certificates can be easily downloaded from your personal account on meingoethe.de after passing the exam and are also valid in this form for official institutions such as German embassies.
The certificates can be checked for validity at www.goethe.de/verify.

Once again, the Goethe-Institut Irak and the Institut Français d'Irak à Erbil are celebrating the diversity of European languages together.
Come to the Erbil International Hotel on September 28 from 11 AM, learn your first sentences in new languages, test your knowledge in games and take part in the varied program.

On Fridays, people interested in literature and culture meet at the Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. On September 20, the Goethe-Institut Irak and al-Mada are once again inviting people to the regular Chai Talk at 11 AM in the al-Mada House. This time, the young artist Youssef Al-Aqabi will talk about “Expressionism” and will give insights into his experience and the challenges of his artistic career.

On September 21 and 28, the Goethe-Institut Irak and the al-Mada Reading Club invite you to the regular events of the reading club in Erbil.
The event is a cooperation between the Goethe-Institut Irak and the al-Mada Reading Club and will take place at 6 PM at the Nazdar Hayran Café in Erbil.
The events are held in Arabic.

Designers can apply to take part in the Design Academy 2024 in Sulaymaniyah until August 8. Together with international trainers, they will work at the interface of music and design during the five-days on-site phase.

After a redesign, the culture section on our website invites you to browse: would you like to find out more about our projects in the areas of creative spaces, design, cultural heritage orculture and sustainability? Would you like to learn more about our library work? Or are you interested in the joint projects with the Institut Francais d’Irak à Erbil? The new pages offer a broad insight into the cultural work at Goethe-Institut Irak.

The month of August on our social media channels will be dedicated to the topic of cultural heritage. We will discover it from a variety of perspectives and highlight the relevance of the topic for the work of Goethe-Institut Irak in the areas of language, culture and libraries. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for a wide range of reading and film tips, musical inspiration and more!