Ruptured Domesticity: the archive
An archive of the trauma geographies of maps, stories and pop-up books
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.
Dr Rawaa Qasha is an Assistant Professor and Director of Scholarships and Cultural Relations at the University of Mosul
Rawaa is a Christian from Alqosh, North of Mosul. Her map attempts to preserve the heritage, identity and geography of the Christian village of Alqosh.
Ali Al-Baroodi, from Mosul, is a photojournalist expert on Mosul, translator and an academic at the Department of Translation, Mosul University.
Ali’s map is a homage to home, a home lost and re-found after enduring multiple traumas materially and conceptually during the Battle for Mosul in 2014.
Born and bred in Basrah, Abrar Wadi is a Civil Engineer and a feminist activist.
Her map crosses uncomfortable tensions between the two houses that belonged to her family and her father’s second wife, and her activism as part of the feminist Tishreen Movement in Basrah in 2019 and 2020.
Shahab Sameer is a writer and a member of The Union for the Literaries and Writers in Iraq, originally from the South of Sinjar.
His map represents the trauma of thousands of Yazidis from Sinjar who were brutally uprooted from their village by ISIS attacks in 2014.
Sanar Hasan is an award-winning journalist and a feminist.
Her activism came to life during the 2019 Iraqi revolution, also known as the Tishreen Movement as she participated and documented the revolution in Baghdad’s Tahreer Square. Soon after she fled her home alone and sought refuge in the UK.
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People
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Dr Sana Murrani
Associate Professor (Spatial Practice)