Interactive · long-read
Rebuilding the Soul of Mosul
The long work of rebuilding what was demolished — Al-Nuri, the markets, the schools.
The long work of rebuilding what was demolished — Al-Nuri, the markets, the schools.
Cities are not buildings. They are the lives that happen between them. The deepest restoration is not of the stones but of the people who walk past them. This story map is a record of that work — of the schools, the libraries, the oral histories, the conversations that have begun again.
What's inside
6 chapters · scroll through, or open the interactive at the top.
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01
The reopened schools
Where children of the occupation go now.
3 min -
02
The Oral History Centre
Recording Mosulis before memory becomes second-hand.
2 min -
03
The Jewish memory of Mosul
Documenting the city's lost Jewish heritage.
3 min -
04
Manuscripts saved & restored
What was hidden, what was recovered.
2 min -
05
The reading room
The Mosul Eye House and the long conversations.
2 min -
06
The next generation of Mosulis
What they remember, what they did not have to see.
2 min
A note from the historian
Why we built this
A soul does not rebuild itself. It is rebuilt by neighbours, by teachers, by the slow return of trust. This is what we mean, in the end, by recovery. Not a return to before, but a continuation that the city itself chose.
— Omar Mohammed · Mosul Eye