This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the departure from Iraq of the “Arab poet” Muhammad Mahdi al-Jawahiri (1899-1997). In his home country, special literary events began for the occasion on July 22 at the “Baghdad Cultural Center” in the middle of Al-Mutanabi Street and at the “headquarters of the Union of Iraqi Writers.” Today, on Wednesday, the grand opening of the Jeweler’s House, whose restoration has finally been completed, will take place. This came after requests from the Al-Jawahiri family and a large fanbase of Iraqi intellectuals to turn the house where Al-Jawahiri lived between 1971 and 1980 into a cultural landmark after it was demolished after years of negligence

For example, the “Baghdad Municipality” declared ownership of the house in 2013, indicating the start of restoration in preparation for making the site a museum for the author of the poem “The Iraqi Revolution” (which states actual beginning of the national movement) and a national cultural center. In recent years, promises were not fulfilled until the process was finally completed, creating a state of complacency and joy in Iraq and abroad.
Note that the Al-Jawahiri House was the only property of the owner of the Literary Arena (1923) in Iraq until he left for Prague in the early 1980s after spending his life renting several houses to others different regions. Al-Jawahiri built this house at his own expense after he bought a piece of land in the Qadisiyah district (south of the capital), and it was among the land distributed by the state to journalists before he completed its construction in late 1971.