The Grand al-Nuri mosque as rebuilding work continues in Mosul. — Reuters
IT was the simple night-time act of watering flowers on his street in Mosul’s Old City that made Saqr Zakaria stop and think about just how safe this last bastion of the so called Islamic State (Isis) had become since it was liberated in 2017.
“I thought for a second, ‘where am I?’” said Zakaria, who left the city in 2005 but returned to set up a cultural centre, the Baytna Foundation, in 2018 at a time when thousands of bodies were still being cleared from the ruins.
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A new lease on life
Saqr Zakaria, the director of the Baytna Foundation, walking through the museum as rebuilding work continues in Mosul.
The Nineveh Governorate Building. It has been 10 years since the ousting of the so called Islamic State group, who seized control of the city and ruled for three years. — Photos: Reuters
Children play ingnear their home in Mosul as rebuilding work continues.
A drone view showing the Al-Hadba minaret in Mosul. — Reuters
A drone view shows the Al-Tahira Church as rebuilding work continues in Mosul.
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