Areej Munadhil

Areej Munadhil was born in the Al-Zubair district of Basra Governorate and later moved to Diwaniyah, where she completed her primary education. After the fall of the regime, her family returned to their ancestral home in a small district near Nasiriyah, where Areej finished her secondary education. She then earned a bachelor’s degree in Radiology from the Middle Technical University in Baghdad in 2014, the year the terrorist organization ISIS invaded, causing significant unrest in the capital. She grew up in a middle-class family; her father was a history teacher and the principal of a boys’ middle school.