The Continuing Education Unit at the College of Fine Arts, University of Basrah, held an electronic symposium on (stylistic diversity between surrealism and portraiture in the works of the artist Haider al-Yasiri)
The symposium, which was moderated by the assistant teacher Hadeel Iyad and attended by the artist Haider Al-Yasiri, included the beginning of his introduction to surrealist painting since his studies at the Institute of Fine Arts in Basra, as well as his series of portraits since his immigration to America as the first artwork he launched there.
The symposium also discussed the method of the artist’s work in creating the surrealist work and the technique in which he worked in his works consisting of caricatures, by integrating portraits of faces with professional realism on the body of caricatures of important and famous personalities.

A group of teachers and students participated in the symposium.
 The symposium aims to shed light on the expatriate artist Haider Al-Yasiri and his distinguished works, as well as teaching students the mechanisms and stages of completing the surreal work, in addition to explaining the contents of the work and the basic symbols that the artist stripped and took as a model for drawing in his paintings, and to introduce the importance of this art and its role in the contemporary Iraqi plastic movement.