People don't talk to you properly. It's the way they talk to you; they dismiss you. I think it's a combination of me being a woman and a foreigner.

I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

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

The world is looking more and more segmented, the difference between people is becoming greater.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.