Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

Different projects give you satisfaction in different ways.

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

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.

I always thought I was powerful, since I was a kid.