Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

Being Iraqi taught me to be very cautious.

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

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

Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.

I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.