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.

The Marsh Arab way of life fit harmoniously into this millennia-old natural order. In the 1980s, under the rule of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, that lifestyle became endangered.

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 ...

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 ...

Marsh Arabs, nostalgic for the richer past, are still keen to emphasize that there have been many improvements to their lives. "There is modern housing, there's refrigeration, ...

The Marsh Arabs are embroiled in an uphill battle to save their way of life. Saddam’s Legacy. At their peak, the marshlands were the largest wetland ecosystem in the Middle East, ...

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

The effort to restore the Marsh Arabs' traditional way of life in southern Iraq virtually eradicated by Saddam Hussein faces new threats ...

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… ...

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 ...

The marshlands of southern Iraq, long regarded as one of the nurturing grounds of civilisation but turned into an arid salt bed under the regime of Saddam Hussein, are to be restored by the United ...