Content by Mustafa Ibraheem

1. DR.Mustafa Ibraheem
IIE Visiting Scholar
ISIS
and
Urban dimensions

2. Fromthispoint,wearegoingtoshowISIS’sspatialandurban
dimensions
Stereotype has focused on how many
people have killed by ISIS
but
what about cities
how many cities have been killing by
ISIS?

3. Iraq spatial structure

6. Explosive barrels
CannonAirstrikes
Rocket launchers
Conflicting parties
ISIS
+
Militia (Shia,Kurdish,
Yazidi)
+
Iraqi Government
+
International Alliance

7. An internally displaced person
http://iomiraq.net/dtm-page

9. 1200 neighborhoods
300 districts
1200 elementary schools
300 secondary schools
civic buildings= !

13. Source: https://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/
https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/group/irq

14. Landmark
Destroyed more than 530
landmarks

17. Public buildings
More than 4500-5500 public
buildings

19. Markets
They have destroyed more
than 300 markets

21. more than 2500
housing blocks
(neighborhoods)
Urban Fabric

23. https://data.hdx.rwlabs.org/dataset/geodata-of-damage-assessment-of-ramadi-al-
anbar-province-iraq-january-22-2015

28. Archeology sites

29. Infrastructures

30. 870 government buildings
The largest oil refinery

31. 543 factories

33. Transportation and Bridges

34. 218 bridges
300 km Railroad

35. How many private cars

37. RESULTS

38. Dry marshes

39. Plunging cities

41. Widows = 70,000 women
Orphans = 230,000 Disabilities = 12500
Missing = 8500
Wounded = 45000

42. Do you know what are these points?

43. ISIS
+
Militia
+
Iraqi
Government
Urban
Genocide

44. References:
http://www.epic-usa.org/humanitarian-crisis-overview-series-displacement/
http://1001iraqithoughts.com/2015/01/26/are-sunnis-being-ethnically-cleansed-in-iraq/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/world/middleeast/iraqi-widows-numbers-have-grown-but-aid-lags.html?_r=0
http://rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/190420151
http://www.refworld.org/pdfid/544e4b3c4.pdf
https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/12/12/humanitarian-and-human-rights-crisis-iraq-testimony-sarah-margon