Omar Mohammed

Omar Mohammed, Ph.D., is the founder of the Mosul Eye, Director of Research at the Program on Extremism at George Washington University, and adjunct professor at Sciences Po Paris. He served as a UNESCO Cultural Heritage Specialist and advised the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh (UNITAD) on heritage crimes in Iraq. He is the author of Mosul Eye: A Scholar's Clandestine War Against ISIS. He lived in Mosul throughout the Islamic State’s occupation of the city.