Southern Iraq's Marshes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern Iraq's Marshes write by Laith A. Jawad. This book was released on 2021-05-06. Southern Iraq's Marshes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Mesopotamian marshes are important for economic, social, and biodiversity values and have been home to indigenous human communities for millennia. They are regarded as a legendary site. This multi-authored book contains chapters written by world-renowned experts in their field. Both basic and applied information are made available, making the book a must-have for a wide spectrum of users. For example, an understanding of the natural and the social aspects of the marshes, as described here, is an obvious prerequisite for a pest management plan in this area. Scholars interested in wetlands can use this book as a guide to compare different wetlands areas in Asia. The bibliography section contains valuable references to the marsh areas and research in the field. This book serves as an up-to-date comprehensive source of information on different aspects of the southern marshes of Iraq and is aimed at academic scholars, environmentalists, and decision makers.
The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes
The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes write by Steve Lonergan. This book was released on 2024-04-23. The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The gripping history of the devastation and resurrection of the Marshes of Iraq, an environmental treasure of the Middle East, now a protected site The Mesopotamian Marshes in southern Iraq, once the largest wetland system on the planet, have been inhabited for thousands of years by the Ma‘dan, or Marsh Arabs, but they remain remote, isolated, and virtually unknown. In the early 1990s, the Saddam Hussein regime drained the Marshes and set out to destroy not only a critical ecosystem but a unique way of life as well. It stands as one of the greatest environmental and humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century. In the wake of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, local residents destroyed the earthen dams built to divert water from the wetlands and the Marshes were reflooded. Their future, however, is in peril. The Ghosts of Iraq’s Marshes tells the history of the creation, destruction, and revitalization of the Marshes and their inhabitants against the backdrop of the dramatic events that have convulsed Iraq in the past fifty years. It follows the life of Jassim al-Asadi, an irrigation engineer who was jailed and tortured under Saddam Hussein and who subsequently dedicated his life to the reflooding and restoration of the Marshes. He eventually contributed to the Marshes being declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. Jassim is eminently relatable, and the stories of his life and other marsh dwellers are infused with pathos, tragedy, humor, and passion.
Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden
Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden write by Edward L. Ochsenschlager. This book was released on 2004-11-10. Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq.
Diatoms in the Wetlands of Southern Iraq
Diatoms in the Wetlands of Southern Iraq - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Diatoms in the Wetlands of Southern Iraq write by Adil Y. Al-Handal. This book was released on 2019-12-10. Diatoms in the Wetlands of Southern Iraq available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors document the diatom species composition and ecology in the two major water impoundments of Southern Iraq, the Mesopotamian Marshes and Shatt Al-Arab River. Based on light and scanning electron microscopy investigations, 293 taxa are documented, including the description of three new species. The taxa treated herein were collected from a variety of habitats over a period of 15 years. Diatom assemblages consist of a mixture of freshwater, brackish water and marine taxa. Many diatom taxa that have disappeared in recent years are also documented in this volume. One reason for their disappearance is the high salinization of the Mesopotamian Marshes and Shatt Al-Arab River areas resulting from extremely low freshwater discharge from Euphrates and Tigris Rivers which allowed the seawater front to reach these regions. Species belonging to previously recorded genera such as Eunotia and Diatoma are no longer present in this area. Therefore, this work also is a documentary record of the diatom flora of the wetlands of Southern Iraq during the past 15 years and not only provides an insight into the present state of research but preserves records and findings from taxa no longer present in Southern Iraq, due to human driven ecological impacts.
The Prince of the Marshes
The Prince of the Marshes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prince of the Marshes write by Rory Stewart. This book was released on 2007-02-01. The Prince of the Marshes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An adventurous diplomat’s “engrossing and often darkly humorous” memoir of working with Iraqis after the fall of Saddam Hussein(Publishers Weekly). In August 2003, at the age of thirty, Rory Stewart took a taxi from Jordan to Baghdad. A Farsi-speaking British diplomat who had recently completed an epic walk from Turkey to Bangladesh, he was soon appointed deputy governor of Amarah and then Nasiriyah, provinces in the remote, impoverished marsh regions of southern Iraq. He spent the next eleven months negotiating hostage releases, holding elections, and splicing together some semblance of an infrastructure for a population of millions teetering on the brink of civil war. The Prince of the Marshes tells the story of Stewart’s year. As a participant he takes us inside the occupation and beyond the Green Zone, introducing us to a colorful cast of Iraqis and revealing the complexity and fragility of a society we struggle to understand. By turns funny and harrowing, moving and incisive, it amounts to a unique portrait of heroism and the tragedy that intervention inevitably courts in the modern age.
