Mosul Eye accepts no advertising and no government funding. The archive is supported by readers — dispatch by dispatch, donor by donor.
What donations fund
Archive preservation. Hosting, redundant backups, and the long, slow work of keeping eleven years of dispatches readable a hundred years from now. Migration of older entries into the current taxonomy. Open access for researchers.
The Mosul Eye House. A cultural and documentation centre in Old Mosul — a physical home for the project, a public reading space, and the seat of the Oral History Centre.
Oral history and field reporting. Hours of recorded interview with witnesses across Mosul and its surrounding villages, transcribed in Arabic and English, catalogued, and preserved. New reporting from inside Nineveh.
Library and heritage recovery. Book and manuscript donations to libraries rebuilt after the occupation. Surveys of private collections that survived in attics and basements. Urban greening and the slow restoration of the city’s public spaces.
How to give
PayPal accepts one-time and recurring donations in most major currencies. Any amount is genuinely appreciated; recurring monthly support is what keeps the archive predictable.
Transparency
An annual accounting of how donations are spent is published each year on this site — what came in, what went out, what was funded. The first such accounting appeared in 2022; the most recent is linked from this page when published.
If you are giving on behalf of an institution — a university library, a research grant, a private foundation — please write to contact@mosul-eye.org so we can confirm receipt and acknowledge the gift appropriately.
Other ways to help
- Subscribe to the dispatch via the form on the home page. Free, no tracking.
- Pre-order the book. Mosul Eye: A Scholar’s Clandestine War Against ISIS — forthcoming from Skyhorse Publishing on 21 July 2026, with a foreword by Pope Francis. More on the book →
- Cite our work in your own. The full record is open access; we ask only attribution.
- Send us source materials — photographs, letters, recordings — that belong in this record. Write to the contact address above.
Mosul Eye is independent and reader-supported. Eleven years on, the work continues.