I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.

You have to be very focused and work very hard, but it is not about working hard without knowing what your aim is!

You really have to have a goal.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.