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

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

I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.

Indeed, our designs become more ambitious as we see the new possibilities created by the technology of other industries.

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