His doctoral dissertation at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Basra discussed the effectiveness of cultural specificity in contemporary Asian formation.
The thesis presented by the researcher Shahd Sabah Majid included the topic of Asian culture in its essence and its cultural elements and the extent of the effectiveness of these elements as a presence and influence in its contemporary plastic arts .

The thesis aims to show the cultural field that is the entity of societies and their identity, because art is a mirror reflecting the cultures of nations and their civilization.

The thesis concluded that the Asian artist sometimes adheres to the traditional style, expressing the identity of Asian arts with its ideological, environmental and cultural intellectual references, and other times the Asian artist emphasizes his cultural identity with its distinctive elements.