“Through the conversations that I’ve had with Iraqis from the north to the south of Iraq, they kept on coming back to this thing of we never documented what was going on to us at the time. The archive, a forthcoming book (to be released in 2024) and an exhibition currently in place at the London School of Economics Middle East Centre, center on the stories and memories of 15 Iraqis from different parts of the country – many of whom are still in Iraq. Murrani, an architect, approached the three-part project in an effort to understand how Iraqis created places of refuge amid uncertainty and war. Watch the conversation between Murrani and the PBS NewsHour’s Yasmeen Sami Alamiri in the player above. Through the project, Murrani, who is also associate professor in Spatial Practice and Architecture at the University of Plymouth, UK, pulled on memories of geographic spaces and forced travel due to the circumstances of war, but also what Iraqis carried with them to represent their homes. Nearly 1.2 million Iraqis are still internally displaced due to the war, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency. In Ruptured Domesticity, a digital archive, Iraqi researcher Sana Murrani has collected the memories of Iraqis living inside and outside the country during the times of war. Years of war, followed by continued instability in the country, has cost generations time and trauma. The 2003 invasion of Iraq is a memory forever etched in the minds of millions of Iraqis who were living in and outside the country at the time.
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