BAGHDAD: With hammer and saw, Nour Al-Janabi is building her latest creation, a candy-pink sofa, in the carpentry workshop she runs in male-dominated and conservative Iraq. “At the start, relatives criticized me,” said the 29-year-old carpenter and furniture-maker, who is also a mother of four. “They would say: ‘But you’re a woman. You’re an amateur. It’s a men’s trade’.”
With hammer and saw, Nour al-Janabi is building her latest creation, a candy-pink sofa, in the carpentry workshop she runs in male-dominated and conservative