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Contrary To Popular View, I've Never Been Patronized In The Middle East. Men Maybe Treat Women Differently, But They Do Not Treat Them With Disrespect. They Don't Hate Women. It's A Very Different Kind Of Mentality.

There Are Some Very Similar Moments In The Early Work Where The Focus Was On Drawing, Abstraction And Fragmentation. Then It Moved To The Development Of Ideas. Lately It Has Become What Architecture Should Be, Which Is More Fluid Organization. There Has Not Been So Much 'a Change' But 'a Development'.

I Don't Think People Should Do Things Because You Know, 'i Am Turning This Age, I Must Go Have A Husband.' If You Find Somebody And It Works Out Then Have Kids, It's Very Nice. But If You Don't, You Don't.

Know What It Is That You Are Trying To Find Out.

In Iraq, Many Of My Female Friends Were Architects And Professionals With A Lot Of Power During The 1980s While All The Men Were At War In Iran.