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Sheikh Mohamed wanted culture of life in Mosul to

defeat culture of death, UAE minister says

Noura Al Kaabi describes 'wonderful feeling' of seeing Iraqi city's UAE-led restoration completed

Mina Al-Oraibi
Mosul
September 02, 2025

The UAE's Minister of State Noura Al Kaabi stood proudly in Mosul's Al Nuri Mosque, witnessing a project close to her heart
come to life.

Seven years after she signed the first agreement in the Iraqi capital, what began as a funding push became a full-scale project to
remove the scars of ISIS.

"When the President [Sheikh Mohamed] instructed us in 2018 to fly to Baghdad and sign an MOU between us and between the
Ministry of Culture and Unesco, he didn't want us to waste time," the Minister of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs told The
National in an interview in Mosul on Monday.

"He wanted the culture of life, the culture of hope, to defeat the culture of death that Daesh wanted to
spread in this region," added Ms Al Kaabi, speaking inside one of two churches that the UAE-led project
helped restore as well.

"It's a wonderful feeling. I feel incredible, but I feel there's more to do."

UAE-led
restoration project The battle for the city, in its alleys and centuries-old streets, was among the most brutal in Iraq’s recent
removes scars of history. It marked the beginning of the end for ISIS after the extremists had seized 30 per cent of Iraq
Mosul’s ISIS and threatened Baghdad itself.
destruction

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