Rana Ibrahim is an Iraqi archaeologist, a freelance artist, and the founder of Iraqi Women Art and War (IWAW) project. She is currently working with Iraqi women based in Oxfordshire, mapping Iraqi women and helping them to capture their oral stories of war survival through art. The project will culminate in a new exhibition, ‘Of Ordinary Things’, which will be exhibited online via IWAW’s website and exhibited physically at the Museum of Oxford in 2021.

Rana has an MA in Museum Studies from Newcastle University. She works with GLAM at the University of Oxford, and recently worked at Oxford’s History of Science Museum as a Collection Project Officer and as part of the team on a project called Multaka Oxford. The IWAW project started in 2021, welcoming vulnerable women from different backgrounds to join them.