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 criticised 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'."
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