Both the Mesopotamian Marshes and the culture of the Ma ... flowing from southern Turkey through Syria and Iraq, met at the Shatt al-Arab River near Basra, creating vast marshlands in Iraq ...

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Every morning at 4am Hesab Abdulhassan and his son climb into their boat and set off into the marshes to gather reeds. The family’s house in Chibayish in southern Iraq was once surrounded by lush ...

In October, an official in the impoverished rural province of Dhi Qar told AFP that in the previous six months, 1,200 families had left the marshes and other agricultural areas of southern Iraq ...

Al-Mudaffar Fawzi, N., K. Goodwin, B. Mehdi, and M.L. Stevens. 2016. Effects of Mesopotamian Marsh (Iraq) Desiccation on Cultural Knowledge and Livelihood of Marsh ...

The marshlands of Mesopotamia in Iraq have been placed on UNESCO's world heritage list. About the significance of this move, Mueen AlBurihi says..