The Women’s Affairs Unit at the Faculty of Nursing, University of Baghdad, in collaboration with the Nursing Fundamentals Department, organized a specialized workshop entitled “Women in Arabic Linguistic Discourse and its Impact on Cognitive Empowerment.” The workshop was presented by Dr. Diaa Abdul-Kazim Jabr and Assistant Professor Iman Abdul-Jabbar Jamal, and was attended by a group of faculty members and staff in the college’s continuing education hall.
The workshop aimed to address fundamental issues, demonstrating that the Arabic language, with its elegance and strength, has served as a refuge for women’s aspirations and a weapon with which they have fought marginalization throughout the ages. The lecturers pointed out that in the current era of knowledge explosion, words remain the key to empowerment, emphasizing that women have never been a mere passing topic in linguistic discourse, but rather the language in its most magnificent manifestations and knowledge in its highest goals.
The workshop also featured a review of Quranic references that recorded the presence of women and their pivotal role in a sophisticated linguistic style that reflects their high cultural value. The workshop concluded with a fundamental recommendation that emphasized the need to strengthen the presence and contributions of women in contemporary linguistic studies and to activate their role in linguistic knowledge production in line with their historical . This event embodies the college’s keenness to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Goal 5 on gender equality and Goal 4 on quality education, in an effort to build an integrated knowledge society that supports the role of women in various fields.
