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"It's the Old City of Mosul, with its beauty, that taught me to draw and paint," Khleif Mahmood, a painter and professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Mosul, told Al-Monitor, as he showed his paintings of the Old City.
The city that has inspired him is now 70% destroyed by the international coalition’s airstrikes and street battles to fight the Islamic State (IS).
