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Story maps
Four interactive maps and visual essays made by Mosul Eye on Esri’s ArcGIS StoryMaps platform. Each one tells a different part of the recovery story — heritage, diplomacy, the broader rebuilding of the city, and the deeper question of whether what was lost can be reborn. Each has its own dedicated page, with the story map embedded and a companion essay placing it in context.
Mosul’s Heritage Reborn
An interactive story of what Mosul has reclaimed since liberation — manuscripts that surfaced from private hands, shrines restored stone by stone, monuments brought back, the Al-Nuri minaret rising from its plinth.
Read the story → Cultural diplomacyIraq’s Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO’s Global Partnership
How an international coalition — UNESCO, the United Arab Emirates, the European Union, France, Italy — came together around the recovery of Mosul, and the cultural-diplomatic frame in which it was conducted.
Read the story → RecoveryReviving Mosul
A walk through the recovery of Mosul — street by street, monument by monument — from the post-liberation work in 2017 to the present.
Read the story → ReconstructionRebuilding the Soul of Mosul
The harder work of reconstruction — the parts that cannot be done by simply pouring concrete. The buildings can be rebuilt; whether the social structures they held can be rebuilt with them is the question.
Read the story →Story maps are interactive long-form essays built on Esri’s ArcGIS StoryMaps platform, combining narrative text with maps, photographs, and timelines. Each of the four above has its own dedicated page on this site — with the story map embedded, a companion essay, links into the Mosul Eye archive, and editor space for related video and press coverage.