BBC: Basra Museum - How Saddam’s palace was given to the people

Theopi Skarlatos
1 min readOct 10, 2016

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My article from Basra, Iraq, which gives a glimpse into the palace once owned by Saddam Hussein, that’s just been turned into a museum. Met so many amazing people on this trip who work tirelessly to transform their city into a hub of culture, history and investment. It is still mostly rubble.. but amongst the rubble are some fantastic projects just getting off the ground…

To read the full article on the BBC website click HERE

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