Journal of the College of Languages (JCL)

About the Journal

The Journal of the College of Languages — a window onto world languages and cultures, and a space for dialogue and cultural exchange among nations.

Since its establishment in 1994 by the College of Languages — University of Baghdad, the Journal of the College of Languages continues to carry out its mission as a refereed, specialized scholarly platform for linguistic, literary, and translation studies, and an academic space where researchers from diverse cultures and scholarly orientations meet to exchange knowledge and enrich scientific research in the fields of living languages and their literatures.

The journal seeks to support rigorous scholarly output and publish original research that contributes to advancing linguistic, translation, and cultural studies, and to strengthening scholarly dialogue among researchers inside and outside Iraq, thereby consolidating its position as a window onto world languages and cultures and a space for cultural and intellectual dialogue and exchange among nations.

The journal publishes original, high-quality research in the humanities, specifically in language, literature, and translation for the living foreign languages hosted by the College of Languages — including English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, Italian, Persian, Hebrew, Kurdish, and Syriac — as well as comparative studies and research related to language, literature, and translation.

The journal is issued regularly on a semi-annual basis, adhering to the highest standards of quality and scientific peer review, and assigns published research a digital identifier (DOI), ensuring ease of access and enhancing its academic dissemination, in addition to its continuous efforts to expand its presence in international scientific databases and indexing services, in service of researchers and to raise the standard of scientific research in the fields of languages and the humanities.