Dirasat Mosiliya

Puppet Theater is a performative form that involves the animation of puppets, often representing human or animal-like characters. These puppets are operated or controlled by a person called a puppeteer, who uses hand and arm movements to manipulate devices such as rods or strings to move the puppet’s body, head, limbs, and in some cases, the mouth and eyes. The puppeteer speaks in the voice of the puppet character and may sometimes perform to a recorded soundtrack Puppetry is an ancient theatrical art that dates back to the 5th century BCE in ancient Greece, and some forms may trace back as far as 3000 BCE. Despite its many forms, puppetry universally involves the animation of inanimate objects to tell a story. It is widespread in nearly all human societies, often used for entertainment through performance. However, in some cases, it focuses on sacred themes and religious rituals, using symbolic forms and puppets in celebrations, carnivals, and as a catalyst for social and psychological change in transformative arts. This research focuses on the delivery mechanisms in puppet theater performances by Nadhir Abdul Ghani Al-Azzawi, who crafted and manipulated puppets for theatrical performances presented to children. His approach was based on creating a fully developed dramatic story, with structured characters and events, and utilizing the performance space as a reception environment for the child. He emphasized the child's ability to interact with and immerse themselves in the show, and how responsive the child was to the unfolding events.

The current research aims to identify the level of blame attribution among students of the University of Mosul in general, and the significance of statistical differences in blame attribution according to the variable of specialization (scientific-human), the variable of grade (second-fourth), and the variable of gender (male-female). The research also aims to identify the level of neurotic perfectionism among students of the University of Mosul in general The significance of statistical differences in neurotic perfectionism according to the variable of specialization (scientific-human), the variable of grade (second-fourth), and the variable of gender (male-female), and identifying the relationship between attributing blame and neurotic perfectionism In order to achieve the research objectives, the researcher built two scales, the first for attributing blame and consisting of 36 items. After calculating the discriminating power of the items, the scale became composed of (33) items, and the second for neurotic perfectionism and consisting of (38) items with five-point alternatives (always, often, sometimes, rarely, never, with five weights (1, 2, 3, 4, 5), which he applied to a sample of (480) male and female students from the scientific and humanities departments. After distributing the two scales to the experts and arbitrators as in Appendix (2), the apparent validity of the two scales was extracted and they obtained an agreement rate of (90%) (92% Respectively, it is a high agreement rate, and the stability was extracted by the test-retest method for the two scales. There was a period of (15) days between the first application and the second application, and they obtained a stability rate of (0.80) and (0.85), and then The scale was applied to the basic sample of (480) and the data were processed statistically using the t-test for one sample (t-test), the t-test for two independent samples (t-test), and the t-value for correlation coefficients and relationships The results showed that there was a significant difference in the level of attribution of blame and neurotic perfectionism among students of the University of Mosul, and that there was no significant difference between (females and males) in the level of attribution of blame and also in the level of neurotic perfectionism, and that there was no significant difference in the attribution of blame and also in the level of neurotic perfectionism) according to the stage variable (second and fourth). There is no statistically significant difference in the level of blame attribution according to the specialization variable (scientific-human), while there is a significant moral difference in the level of neurotic perfectionism according to the specialization variable (scientific-human) at a significance level of (0.05).

Al-Rashidiya is one of the well-known districts of Mosul District, while its schools and educational reality are linked to the Tel Kaif District Education Department, as schools are densely spread there. The oldest mention of its school\'s dates back to 1896 AD, which necessitates studying the reality of schools in this vital area of Mosul. This research attempts to shed light on the schools of Al-Rashidiya District by tracing them historically during the period 1969-2014 AD, an era full of political, economic and social transformations that directly reflected on the education sector, student performance and the number of students enrolled in schools. Therefore, this research documents the development of the spread of schools in this area through statistical data from the statistical booklet issued by the General Directorate of Education in Mosul Governorate, Educational Planning Department, Statistics Division, No. QT/KH/49715, issued on June 1, 2025. The booklet included all schools affiliated with the Tel Kaif District Education Department, the names of their principals, the number of students and the number of classes during the period (2004-2014 AD). This requires returning to the previous era, which is the period 1969-2004 AD, which was not included in the statistical booklet, which required following up on this in the field through visits to the schools spread in this region that were not included in the statistical booklet. As for the documents of the Nineveh Governorate Education Directorate, most of the documents and priorities for these schools were lost due to ISIS’ control over the city of Mosul during the period (2014-2017), and thus these documents and priorities were burned and destroyed, especially the preservation and archives division, the primary and secondary human resources division, and the school equipment division, which required a lot of effort to follow up on this in order to count all the schools affiliated with this region.

This paper explores the life of Nicolas Siouffi (d. 1901), French vice-consul in Mosul, and his role in acquiring and selling manuscripts in the city. It focuses on the Mosuli manuscripts acquired by Siouffi and how they made their way to the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF). The study includes sections and commentary on some of the most significant of these manuscripts, most notably an Arabic manuscript attributed to the Greek physician Dioscorides. This research aims to contribute to ongoing efforts to identify and document Mosul’s manuscript heritage.

Water is an essential factor in life in all its forms and components, and this applies to the Khoser River, which is one of the ancient temporary seasonal tributaries of the Tigris River, the traces of whose valley are still visible in the city of Mosul to the present time, especially\]78 since water projects have taken a major position and an essential part of the sustainable development strategy. Hence, this study came to shed light on the importance of water in achieving the goals of sustainable development, the Khoser River as a model, and then to identify the reality of this course and how to sustain it and the obstacles that hinder it as necessary introductions to develop ways to confront them and achieve successful sustainable water development. It is worth noting that the Khoser course is currently low in water due to natural factors and excessive use of water, while different human civilizations have emerged on its banks that have succeeded each other on its various sides, and this river has passed through different periods that represented its existential or spatial value, but this river has had an impact on man and the stages of his development.

The temple is one of the most prominent religious and administrative institutions in the civilizations of Mesopotamia, as it constituted a major center for worship and economic and social organization. Assyria, like the cities of southern Iraq, preserved the tradition of naming temples with sacred names that express the attributes and functions of the deities.
This study aims to trace the names of Sumerian temples that appeared in Assyria with the same name. This study relies on cuneiform texts discovered in cities such as Ashur, Nineveh, Nimrud, and Dur-Sharrukin, while comparing them with the names of temples that appeared in Sumerian city texts from earlier periods.
Consequently, the study of temples in ancient Iraq enables a deeper comprehension of the structure of Mesopotamian society and helps to illuminate the status of religion in formulating the civilizational identity of ancient Iraq, as well as its role in the emergence of the earliest cities and states.
The genesis of the first cities in the Mesopotamian valley was linked to the rise of temples, which formed the nucleus of urban settlement from the fifth millennium BCE, as seen in the temples of Uruk and Eridu. With the evolution of political and social organization, the temple became the central axis of public life: it was the location for performing rites and rituals, the administrative center for agricultural land management, and the organizer of storage and distribution processes. Moreover, the temple developed into an economic power that oversaw community affairs and influenced both internal and external trade relations."