The Iraqi Marshlands and the Marsh Arabs - 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 Iraqi Marshlands and the Marsh Arabs write by Sam Kubba. This book was released on 2011. The Iraqi Marshlands and the Marsh Arabs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text is for those wishing to develop an understanding of a cultural legacy and lifestyle that survives today only as a fragmented cultural inheritance. The book illustrates how the economy and lives of the Ma'dan (Marsh Arabs) that spans over 5000 years remained similar to the ancient practices of their Sumerian forebears.
The Iraqi Marshlands
The Iraqi Marshlands - 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 Iraqi Marshlands write by Emma Nicholson. This book was released on 2003. The Iraqi Marshlands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contains 17 contributions addressing the many human and environmental dimensions of the assault on the Iraqi marshlands by the government of Saddam Hussein during the 1980s and 1990s. This volume is based on the second and final report on the Marshlands and Marsh Dwellers of Southern Mesopotamia.
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.
Return to the Marshes
Return to 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 Return to the Marshes write by Gavin Young. This book was released on 2011-10-20. Return to the Marshes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It was the legendary traveller Wilfred Thesiger who first introduced Gavin Young to the Marshes of Iraq. Since then Young has been entranced by both the beauty of the Marshes and by the Marsh Arabs who inhabit them, a people whose lifestyle is almost unchanged from that of their predecessors, the Ancient Sumerians. On his return to the Marshes some years later Gavin Young found that the twentieth-century had rudely intruded on this lifestyle and that war was threatening to make the Marsh Arabs existence extinct. Return to the Marshes, first published in 1977, is at once a moving tribute to a unique way of life as well as a love story to a place and its people. 'A superbly written essay which combines warmth of personal tone, a good deal of easy historical scholarship and a talent for vivid description rarely found outside good fiction.' Jonathan Raban, Sunday Times
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.
