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"A workshop at Al-Qadisiyah University, along with lectures in Karbala and Najaf, reached a multidisciplinary academic audience and the general public, inspiring many more students and academics ...

A short drive south of Babylon and 90 mi/145 km south of Baghdad, the town of Najaf, along with Karbala, is one of the most sacred Shiite Muslim towns in the world.