The historian behind Mosul Eye

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Born in 1986 in Mosul to ancient Moslawis, Omar Mohammed was schooled in the alleys of Badr al-Din Lu’lu’ before going on to study in Cairo, Paris, and New Haven. Though he holds a BA, an MA, and a PhD, IT has nonetheless rendered him largely illiterate.

Since coming of age, he has been leading a double life — as a historian and otherwise — using English to write up his scholarship, and Arabic and French to write between the lines of what could not be signed, in the stubborn attempt to distinguish fiction from reality. Although childless, his cat, named Plato, who behaves accordingly, and his dog, Grace, hold his heart, even as he shares his time between Paris, Washington, the Mediterranean, and a city he keeps returning to, whether or not it is his to return to. Of course, they share his love with the archives nobody else would read…

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To put Mosul on the global map.

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“ISIS Attack on the Divinely Protected City of Mosul: A Terrorist Attack on Diversity and Peace”

In Mariz Tadros, Philip Mader & Kathryn Cheeseman, eds., Poverty and Prejudice. Bristol University Press, 2023.

“Space, Time and People: How the Destruction of Mosul’s Heritage Reshaped the Future of the People”

In Lorenzo Kamel, ed., Collapse and Rebirth of Cultural Heritage: The Case of Syria and Iraq. Peter Lang, 2020.

“IŞİD’in Düşüşünden Sonra Musul ve Civar Kasabaları”

In Davut Hut, ed., Yüzyıllık Sorun: Musul Vilayeti. VakıfBank Kültür Yayınları, 2020.

Entry in the Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three

Brill · Encyclopaedia of Islam, Three

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