Dr Ula Merie is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Babylon, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Architecture, Iraq, originally from Baghdad. Sectarian violence in Baghdad between the years of 2006 and 2007 tore part of Ula’s house to pieces displacing her and her family multiple times into different neighbourhoods across and over the…
Navigating urban fabric – map 11
Dr Dhirgham Alobaydi, from Baghdad, is the Chair of the Department of Architecture Engineering at the University of Baghdad, College of Engineering. Dhirgham’s map traverses national and international borders with several lines of mobility as Dhirgham and his family sought refuge though back alleys and other difficult routes between city and countryside, and national and…
Traversing city & countryside – map 12
Being the only female teenager in her family, Sanar lived an overly-protected life despite her ambitions. Living in the highly conservative and traditional Mahmudiyah area south of Baghdad meant that the lines between the urban and the rural were blurred just as the lines between freedom and oppression were obscured. Sanar Hasan is an award-winning…
Sheltering in mud houses in the south – map 13
Professor Jaafar Jotheri is a Geo-archaeologist at the University of Qadisiyah. Jaafar is originally from Babylon but in 2003, he was studying for his Masters degree in Geology at the University of Baghdad. Jaafar’s map reveals the traces of refuge-making in the continuous charting of routes of mobility: from the city to the village, from…
Opening doorways between two homes – map 14
Born and bred in Basrah, Abrar Wadi is a Civil Engineer and a feminist activist. Abrar takes pride in her heritage and activism as they come in regular friction with patriarchal societal traditions and taboos. Born during the years of UN Sanctions, she was a child in 2003 who became addicted to the Iraqi flat…
Cutting through violence between cities – map 15
Originally from Basrah, Dr Nawrast Sabeh studied geology in Mosul for her Masters and PhD between 2003 and 2013. Over the span of 10 years Nawrast had to cut through the country multiple journeys alongside the river Tigris between the two cities. While she was living the violence in Basrah, she was thinking of the…
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