The Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies at Basrah and Arab Gulf Studies Center at University of Basrah organized a seminar entitled (A linguistic approach to the influence of the Arabic language on the Persian language).
The seminar presented by Dr. Abbas Abdulaziz Sihoud aimed to explain the common denominators between the two languages: phonemes, writing, pronunciation and grammatical structure.
The seminar dealt with an explanation of a group of expressions and terms included in the Persian linguistic dealings and have an Arabic origin.