Kenneth Morrison

Since its opening in 1982, the hotel has been central to the turbulent events experienced by the Iraqi capital.

For journalists, hotels are an important part of the infrastructure required to report from warzones.

From the use of armoured cars and flak jackets to digital technology and live satellite broadcasts.

More than 30 explosions failed to close ‘Europe’s most bombed hotel’, but could COVID-19 usher in its demise?

From famous ‘war hotels’ in Beirut and Baghdad, Saigon and Sarajevo to those now being transformed into field hospitals.