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By Emily-Rose Baker When in 2014 the Islamic State (also known as ISIS, ISIL or Daesh) seized Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city located 400km northwest of Baghdad, photography was a forbidden activity punishable by execution. Driven to capture the ‘moral truth’ of the destruction of his native city, however, university lecturer and self-taught photographer Ali YousifContinue reading “Mosulography: reclaiming Mosul after ISIS”