An Iraqi Marsh Arab collects reeds at the Chebayesh marsh in Nassiriya, 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad. (Reuters) "There is modern housing, there's refrigeration, there are roads, schools.

After a decade of cultural annihilation, the marsh Arabs of southern Iraq hope a new government will restore their way of life. For more than 5,000 years these people maintained an ancient ...

Iraq's Famed Marshes Are Disappearing—Again. A decade after the restoration of their once fruitful wetlands, the Marsh Arabs are struggling to cope with the country's water shortage.

2003-09-21 04:00:00 PDT Madayna, Iraq-- In time, the marsh waters will creep to the front door of Rathia Jery's four-room mud house, then enter like an overbearing guest, taking over first one ...

CHEBAYESH MARSHES, Iraq (Reuters) - On an island surrounded by the narrow waterways of the Chebayesh Marshes in southern Iraq, Sabah Thamer al-Baher rises ...

During the Shia uprising of 1991, which lasted from March to October, the Iraqi army killed thousands of Shia Marsh Arabs. Many of those who participated in the uprising fled deep into the marshes ...

During the Iran–Iraq War and especially after the failed Shiite uprising following the Gulf War in 1991, Saddam’s government sought the destruction of the refuge of the Marsh Arabs.

Arts & Culture Marsh Arabs Project, bringing traditional Iraqi mudhif to Houston, kicks off slate of events this week. A months-long initiative involving Rice University, Archeology Now and the ...

Largely unnoticed by the rest of the world, Iraq is killing thousands of its own people with missiles and chemical weapons and has destroyed up to three-fourths of the marshes where they live, a me… ...