The Iraqi Marshlands And The Marsh Arabs

Author : Sam Kubba
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
ISBN 13 : 9780863723339
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iraqi Marshlands and the Marsh Arabs written by Sam Kubba and published by Trans Pacific Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Edward L. Ochsenschlager
Publisher : UPenn Museum of Archaeology
ISBN 13 : 9781931707749
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iraq's Marsh Arabs in the Garden of Eden written by Edward L. Ochsenschlager and published by UPenn Museum of Archaeology. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork near a mound called al-Hiba, in the marshes of southern Iraq.

Author : Gavin Young
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571280978
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to the Marshes written by Gavin Young and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Author : Emma Nicholson
Publisher : Politico's Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iraqi Marshlands written by Emma Nicholson and published by Politico's Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Laith A. Jawad
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030662381
Total Pages : 815 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Iraq's Marshes written by Laith A. Jawad and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 815 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Gavin Young
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Return to the Marshes written by Gavin Young and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1977 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steve Lonergan
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 1649033265
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes written by Steve Lonergan and published by American University in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Wilfred Thesiger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marsh Arabs written by Wilfred Thesiger and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book United States and the Iraqi Marshlands written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on the Middle East and Central Asia and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a penchant for wine and women, Tyler is not the kind of man to let the law stand in his way. Rich, arrogant and spoiled, when his love of wine and cognac leads to the death of a young couple walking along a country lane, he'll do anything to avoid the consequences - including driving his car to his property in Mallorca so the English police can't examine it. When Superior Chief Salas orders all inspectors on the island to determine whether Tyler is in their area, laid-back Inspector Enrique Alvarez regards it, like all work, as an unwanted interruption to his lifestyle. He soon discovers, however, that this routine inquiry has far-reaching consequences he could never have foreseen.

Author : Tor Eigeland
Publisher : Olive Branch Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566569828
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When All the Lands Were Sea written by Tor Eigeland and published by Olive Branch Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rare and visually stunning images of a lost world. This remarkable collection of photographs, captured by internationally acclaimed photojournalist Tor Eigeland in 1967, offers unprecedented insight into the daily life of the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. These photographs illustrate the beauty of this unique environment—the marshlands between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers—and show a culture that existed practically unchanged for over 2,000 years. Some have even speculated that this place was the site of the original Garden of Eden. Under Saddam Hussein’s rule, vast areas of the marshlands were dammed and drained, causing catastrophic environmental damage and brutally forcing the marshes’ inhabitants to abandon their way of life. Now Tor Eigeland’s photographic journey stands as a monument, a rare record of a lost world and an ancient civilization. These precious photographs celebrate the people and culture of the marshlands and bring us back to a time and place where people lived in harmony with their environment. In the course of his long and distinguished career, Tor Eigeland has been published in such publications as Time-Life Books, Fortune, Newsweek, and Saudi Aramco World, to name but a few. He has collaborated on ten books for the National Geographic Society, and his assignments have taken him to some of the most remote corners of the globe. He now resides in the south of France.