In the late 1960s, Gurgis Awad (Librarian of the Iraqi Museum) donated his private collection to the Al-Hikma University Library (Zado 1990).
Al-Hikma University's student body was diverse in ethnicity, religion and gender.
[3] The college was seized, along with all the Jesuits' property, by the government the following year, and the foreign faculty were also expelled.
Reunions of graduates of both Baghdad College and Al-Hikma University continue to be held bi-annually.
Joseph MacDonnell, S.J., late of Fairfield University, in his book Jesuits by the Tigris.