Mosul Eye / Initiatives
Initiatives
Mosul Eye is more than an archive of dispatches. Alongside the written record, the project runs a small set of active programmes — each one anchored in Mosul, each one open to readers and researchers, each one designed to do something the archive alone cannot.
Reviving the Jewish Memory of Mosul
A documentation and preservation initiative for the intangible heritage of Mosul’s former Jewish community — oral histories, archives in Hebrew and Ottoman Turkish and Arabic, photographs, historical maps of the Jewish Quarter, and translated studies from the eighteenth century onward. Supported by ALIPH and the “Pasts in the Present” cluster of excellence at the University of Paris Nanterre.
Read more about the Jewish Memory project →
Green Mosul
An urban-greening and climate programme launched in April 2021, supported by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs. More than nine thousand trees have been planted across the city; the programme also convened the Climate Change International Forum (CCIF 2022) at Mosul University, bringing together scholars, officials, students, and activists around climate adaptation in post-occupation Mosul.
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. Founded after the city’s liberation, the Mosul Eye House is the place where the work of the archive lives in the city itself.
A dedicated page for the Mosul Eye House is in preparation.
Oral History Centre
An ongoing programme to record, transcribe, and preserve the testimony of Mosulis who lived through the occupation, the battle, and the years that followed. The Centre operates from the Mosul Eye House and publishes selected excerpts under the Oral History beat in the main archive.
A dedicated page for the Oral History Centre is in preparation.
Library and heritage restoration
The slow, year-by-year work of replacing books and manuscripts in libraries rebuilt after the occupation; surveys of private collections that survived in attics and basements; coordination with UNESCO and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage on the restoration of demolished sites. Pair with the register of destroyed Islamic historical sites of Old Mosul and the essay Space, Time and People.
All of these initiatives are independent and reader-supported. If you would like to contribute to a specific programme, please write to contact@mosul-eye.org or make a donation.