Melissa Gronlund

From The Blog
25 May 2023

Six years after Islamic State was defeated in Mosul, the city’s homes, mosques, churches and cultural sites are still in the process of being put back together. It is at times difficult to distinguish the legacy of the battle – the bombed-out houses and their exposed iron rebars, or the spaces where bedraggled brown grass is working its way up through mounds of collapsed concrete – from the excavation sites. In some cases, they overlap.

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