I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.'

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

Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

I don't like the masculine style, jeans. I like issey miyake... and black dresses.

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.

You really have to have a goal. The goal posts might shift, but you should have a goal. Know what it is you want to find out.

Too many are too obsessed by method. it becomes a dogma.