Possible Clues:

• The graduates join the Academician at the Gulf
• How a bar's hidden in the Moslem country there
• As it's in the bar in the Gulf
• ... as Arabs may be, here?
• Port in SE Iraq
• Educated people are set above the artist in Iraq
• Place this as it's in the bar in Iraq
• Chief port of Iraq
• As it's in the bar in the Middle East
• They graduated with the artist in the Middle East