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Yaseen Raad


Yaseen Raad is an Iraqi urban planner and researcher. His research deals with issues of militarization and public space in Baghdad. He has a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Baghdad and a master’s degree in urban planning and policy from the American University of Beirut.

ARTICLES BY Yaseen Raad

  • A Spatial History of a Main Baghdadi Street

    A Spatial History of a Main Baghdadi Street

    “The sidewalk was like a mirror
    Now, a sanitation worker collects the bodies of dead people 
    […]
    My memories died yesterday
    But a tree smiling in Abu Nuwas has enlivened them”

    – Iraqi poet Fadhil Abbas. 

    This essay examines the wa..