As part of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani’s initiative to support book printing, the General Cultural Affairs Department at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Antiquities published the book (Fires of Knowledge: Destruction of Mosul Libraries 2014-2017) by writer and researcher Mahmoud Jumaa .
The book is 258 pages of medium size, and includes the exceptional situation that Nineveh Governorate experienced in terms of security, economy and administration after 2014 due to the terrorist ISIS. The book sheds light on the transformation of the governorate into a center of conflicts that plunged its people, history and heritage into a cycle of ferocity, where hundreds of cultural crimes were committed in which Nineveh lost more than a million books, rare manuscripts and sensitive documents .
The book tried to document the genocide that targeted five of the most important libraries in Nineveh and Iraq during its occupation by the terrorist ISIS, as they contain rare materials, a large part of which dates back hundreds of years .
