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In Iraq, where many biblical scholars place the Garden of Eden, Scott Pelley finds a water world where the Marsh Arabs are making a comeback after Saddam nearly destroyed the cradle of civilization.
April 2004
As waters begin to flow back into Iraq's burnt-out marshlands, many hope that it will also revive a dying community.
Life for the Marsh Arabs has been a question of survival since Saddam drained the wetlands in the 1990's. Once seen as the 'Garden of Eden' the land is now a salt-encrusted wasteland. "Have you seen our houses -- are they fit for human beings?" asks tribesman Abdul Bari. His village has no hospital and school and his people are locked in a bloody feud with those of the neighbouring villages. The only resource found in abundance here is the huge stash of weapons used in local conflict. The schemes to re-flood the marshes are not always deemed top priority. "What can water do for us? We have no use for it," says a mother of 14. But returning exiles see the restoration of these lands as a symbolic gesture towards peace. "It was a temple to God, the only place where I felt peaceful," reminisces Azzam, a returning ex-pat. His 'Eden Again' project is an attempt to recreate the past for future generations. But it won't be easy. "It's not as simple as turning on the tap," he says. It will take some clever engineering and nature's own growth for restoration to work. "I dream of having a computer in each of these huts,".
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- published: 16 Aug 2007
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Spread throughout Southern Iraq near the border with Iran, the Marshland Arabs rose against Saddam Hussein following Desert Storm from their nomadic territory, known as the Cradle of Civilization.Hussein retaliated by engineering the largest act of eco-terrorism in history, by cutting off the natural water supply to the marsh. In a few months his acts transformed a lush and green oasis into a barren and arid wasteland, unsuitable for any form of life.This act of vengeance greatly damaged the eco system, and came close to wiping out the oldest living civilization on the planet, along with their culture.After Saddam's fall, the damns were broken, the area re-flooded, whoever, the marsh has only partially been restored. A drought over the last two years has made recovery in the area slow, and climate change makes a full recovery of the marshlands, improbable.
- published: 12 Dec 2009
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David Axe visits Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq for C-SPAN in the summer of 2005.
- published: 24 Jan 2007
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David Axe visits Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq for C-SPAN in the summer of 2005.
- published: 24 Jan 2007
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Nasiriyah's marshes, Hor al-Hammar, south of Baghdad, April 2nd/3rd 2009
1. Two women walking with their children carrying reeds
2. Wide family carrying reeds
3. Various of canoes on hardened ground
4. Close up cracked ground as a result of drought
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Razaq, Marsh resident
''Our conditions have deteriorated more. I have bought this canoe which you see it now on dried marsh. We asked our schoolchildren to leave schools, because we couldn't afford their expenses and buy them clothes. We don't have money or livestock. Now we don't have fish to sell or farms to cultivate. Our standard of living is deteriorated.''
6. Stagnant water in dam
9. Pan dam to stagnant water
10. Various of girls in canoe in marsh
11. Various girls reaping reed for feeding livestock
12. Mid girls leaving in canoe
13. Various of women in canoes in marsh
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Talib, Marsh resident
''Our life is too bad and miserable. We have only some buffaloes. We don't have a salary. We have nothing.''
15. Various buffalos
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein Ali, Marsh resident
''When Saddam Hussein was in power the marshes were drained. We left for Najaf province. And when Saddam was toppled and water came to marshes, we came back. Then the marshes were drained again (by the drought). What shall we do? The marshes were dry once again.''
17. Woman carrying pieces of dough and walking towards kiln
18. Close up of pieces of dough of bread on head of woman
19. Various shots of reed being fired in kiln for heating it
20. Woman baking bread
21. Woman bringing bread out of kiln
22. Girl putting bread on her head and walking toward her home
23. Wide of man rowing his canoe in swamp and muddy water
24. Close up of man rowing
25. Close up of man's feet on a canoe making its way through the swamp
26. Tracking shot of swamp
27. Canoe making its way in shallow marsh
28. Various sunset over marshes
LEAD IN:
A severe drought is threatening Iraq's southern marshes.
The land is part of 8,000 square miles of wetlands fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and is thought to be the traditional site of the biblical Garden of Eden.
The region had just started to recover from Saddam Hussein's punitive draining of its lakes and swamps following the 1991 Gulf War.
STORYLINE:
Iraq's southern marshes are considered by many as the cradle of Western civilisation.
This land in the Hor al-Hammar marsh near Nasiriyah, 200 miles south of Baghdad was drained by Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War to punish the people who depended on it for survival.
The marshes were coming back to life a few years ago thanks to help from the United Nations.
Now they are once again little more than vast expanses of cracked earth.
The area's thousands of inhabitants, known as Marsh Arabs, are victims of the debilitating drought that has ravaged much of Iraq and neighbouring countries over the last two years.
''Our conditions have deteriorated more. I have bought this canoe which you see it now on dried marsh," says fisherman Yasir Razaq. " We asked our schoolchildren to leave schools, because we couldn't afford their expenses and buy them clothes. We don't have money or livestock. Now we don't have fish to sell or farms to cultivate. Our standard of living is deteriorated,'' he says.
The Marsh Arab culture has existed for more than 5,000 years in the 8,000 square miles of wetlands fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The flooded, flat plain is said to have played an important role in the development of the agriculture-based culture that helped raise civilisation to new heights.
They boasted hundreds of species of birds and fish.
Periodic flooding created fertile farm lands.
The effect was devastating.
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Marsh Arabs and Iraqi Human Rights (1992): The victimised shia minority of Iraq's deep south have much in common with the Northern Kurds
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leading Iraqi human rights activist Dr Al Hakim visits the Marshes in the extreme south of Iraq and finds evidence of an escalating military campaign against the Marsh Arabs.
The jet fighter attacks stopped after the no-fly zone was declared but the Iraqis still shell the Arabs by mortar. Like the Iranians the marsh people are Shia Muslims whereas the Iraqis are Sunnis. Most families are missing relatives and people have been tortured and every day Iraq is closer to destroying their fragile existence. The Iraqis are also draining the Marsh Arabs' homeland by diverting the rivers which feed it. Contains shocking pictures of an execution of three Kurds by Iraqi soldiers, and black and white footage of Iraqi attacks on another of its minority groups, the Kurds, in 1988.
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SHOTLIST
1. Zoom out from boat on the river to wide shot of boat and river
2. Zoom in to fisherman in boat loaded with fish and weighing fish
3. Tilt up from pools of sewage on the ground between buildings
4. Children in the street
5. Zoom in to child's bare feet standing in the mud
6. Boy sitting on a tyre by pools of sewage
7. Young girl running over rubbish into house
8. Young boy sitting in the ground
9. Top shot of boy making his way over sewage ditch
10. Top shot showing children playing around sewage pools and streams in between buildings
11. Bulldozer flattening out new road
12. Man digging trench for sewage pipes
13. Close up shot of man mixing cement
14. Men carrying cement upstairs in large bowls
15. Man building cement walls for staircase
16. SOUNDBITE (English): Cassandra Nelson, aid worker:
"As you can see here today this displaced people are leaving under very difficult conditions and in this community here, the Marsh Arabs, have come to live in old abandoned factory warehouses. These are warehouses that were
never completed. The stairways don't have railings on them, there is no sewage system, there are no roads, no health clinics and the schools are in abominable conditions. So really we are talking about some of the worse
conditions in Iraq for the living standards here."
17. Village elders walking by
18. Pull out from reflection of houses in sewage waters to houses
STORY LINE
The Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq have lived here for thousands of years - their way of life virtually unchanged.
But after a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991, a vast area of the wetlands - some 20,000 square kilometres (12,500 square miles) between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers - was drained on his orders.
Saddam spent millions of dollars to build dams and canals to halt the flow of the rivers into the marshes.
It was a form of ecological war designed to root out the fiercely independent Marsh Arabs that Saddam saw as a threat to his rule.
Only 10 percent of the original marshlands were left.
Hundreds of thousands of people who once lived in the marshes were displaced and many now live in deplorable conditions.
In Al Amara, 400 kilometres (250 miles) south east of Baghdad, more than nine thousand Marsh Arabs live in old abandoned, partially constructed factory buildings.
There's never been working a sewage system, and raw sewage runs throughout the area and collects in large ponds.
The children play barefoot, wading through the mud and sewage and there are no schools or health facilities.
But the humanitarian aid agency Mercy Corps is working to improve the living conditions of the slum by opening up access roads and doing the more urgent repairs in the old apartment buildings.
Today, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi and coalition engineers have begun selective re-flooding of parts of Iraq's former marshlands.
But for some Marsh Arabs living in the Al Amara slums, it may already be too late.
The younger generation is growing up without learning essential skills such as fishing and farming, making a return to their centuries-old way of life, very difficult.
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The Marsh Arabs (Arabic: عرب الأهوار ʻArab al-Ahwār "Arabs of the Marshlands"), also known as the Maʻdān (Arabic: معدان), are inhabitants of the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in the south and east of Iraq and along the Iranian border.
Comprising members of many different tribes and tribal confederations, such as the Āl Bū Muḥammad, Ferayghāt, Shaghanbah and Banī Lām, the Maʻdān had developed a unique culture centred around the marshes' natural resources. Many of the marshes' inhabitants were displaced when the wetlands were drained during and after the 1991 uprisings in Iraq.
Madan means "dweller in the plains (ʻadan)" and was used disparagingly by desert tribes to refer to those inhabiting the Iraqi river basins, and by those who farmed in the river basins to refer to the population of the marshes. There was a considerable historic prejudice against the Maʻdān, partly as they were considered to have Persian or other "mixed" origin and partly due to their practice of temporary marriage.
Some historians and archaeologists provide circumstantial evidence to posit that Iraq's Marsh Arabs share the strongest link to the ancient Sumerians.[citation needed] Although this is to do with their lifestyle and culture, more than any proven ethnic link, the Sumerians disappeared as a race circa 1800 BC, long before Arabs entered the region.
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Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti (Arabic: صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي Ṣaddām Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Maǧīd al-Tikrītī; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was the fifth President of Iraq, serving in this capacity from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region, which espoused ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism, Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup, later referred to as the 17 July Revolution, that brought the party to long-term power of Iraq.
As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and at a time when many groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government, Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam nationalized oil and other industries. The state-owned banks were put under his control, leaving the system eventually insolvent mostly due to the Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War, and UN sanctions. Through the 1970s, Saddam cemented his authority over the apparatuses of government as oil money helped Iraq's economy to grow at a rapid pace. Positions of power in the country were filled with Sunnis, a minority that made up only a fifth of the population.
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12:44Resurrecting Eden
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5:03Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq
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19:17Marsh Arabs - Iraq
Marsh Arabs - IraqMarsh Arabs - Iraq
April 2004 As waters begin to flow back into Iraq's burnt-out marshlands, many hope that it will also revive a dying community. Life for the Marsh Arabs has been a question of survival since Saddam drained the wetlands in the 1990's. Once seen as the 'Garden of Eden' the land is now a salt-encrusted wasteland. "Have you seen our houses -- are they fit for human beings?" asks tribesman Abdul Bari. His village has no hospital and school and his people are locked in a bloody feud with those of the neighbouring villages. The only resource found in abundance here is the huge stash of weapons used in local conflict. The schemes to re-flood the marshes are not always deemed top priority. "What can water do for us? We have no use for it," says a mother of 14. But returning exiles see the restoration of these lands as a symbolic gesture towards peace. "It was a temple to God, the only place where I felt peaceful," reminisces Azzam, a returning ex-pat. His 'Eden Again' project is an attempt to recreate the past for future generations. But it won't be easy. "It's not as simple as turning on the tap," he says. It will take some clever engineering and nature's own growth for restoration to work. "I dream of having a computer in each of these huts,". Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures -
9:56Saddam Hussein and the Marsh Arabs
Saddam Hussein and the Marsh ArabsSaddam Hussein and the Marsh Arabs
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2:06"IRAQ MARSH ARABS" presented by Over the Wire Films ~ Phin Percy & Julie Dermansky
"IRAQ MARSH ARABS" presented by Over the Wire Films ~ Phin Percy & Julie Dermansky"IRAQ MARSH ARABS" presented by Over the Wire Films ~ Phin Percy & Julie Dermansky
Spread throughout Southern Iraq near the border with Iran, the Marshland Arabs rose against Saddam Hussein following Desert Storm from their nomadic territory, known as the Cradle of Civilization.Hussein retaliated by engineering the largest act of eco-terrorism in history, by cutting off the natural water supply to the marsh. In a few months his acts transformed a lush and green oasis into a barren and arid wasteland, unsuitable for any form of life.This act of vengeance greatly damaged the eco system, and came close to wiping out the oldest living civilization on the planet, along with their culture.After Saddam's fall, the damns were broken, the area re-flooded, whoever, the marsh has only partially been restored. A drought over the last two years has made recovery in the area slow, and climate change makes a full recovery of the marshlands, improbable. -
7:52Marsh Arabs 1
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7:49Marsh Arabs on the marshes
Marsh Arabs on the marshesMarsh Arabs on the marshes
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4:44Drought threatens the future of Iraqs Marsh Arabs
Drought threatens the future of Iraqs Marsh ArabsDrought threatens the future of Iraqs Marsh Arabs
Nasiriyah's marshes, Hor al-Hammar, south of Baghdad, April 2nd/3rd 2009 1. Two women walking with their children carrying reeds 2. Wide family carrying reeds 3. Various of canoes on hardened ground 4. Close up cracked ground as a result of drought 5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Razaq, Marsh resident ''Our conditions have deteriorated more. I have bought this canoe which you see it now on dried marsh. We asked our schoolchildren to leave schools, because we couldn't afford their expenses and buy them clothes. We don't have money or livestock. Now we don't have fish to sell or farms to cultivate. Our standard of living is deteriorated.'' 6. Stagnant water in dam 9. Pan dam to stagnant water 10. Various of girls in canoe in marsh 11. Various girls reaping reed for feeding livestock 12. Mid girls leaving in canoe 13. Various of women in canoes in marsh 14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Talib, Marsh resident ''Our life is too bad and miserable. We have only some buffaloes. We don't have a salary. We have nothing.'' 15. Various buffalos 16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein Ali, Marsh resident ''When Saddam Hussein was in power the marshes were drained. We left for Najaf province. And when Saddam was toppled and water came to marshes, we came back. Then the marshes were drained again (by the drought). What shall we do? The marshes were dry once again.'' 17. Woman carrying pieces of dough and walking towards kiln 18. Close up of pieces of dough of bread on head of woman 19. Various shots of reed being fired in kiln for heating it 20. Woman baking bread 21. Woman bringing bread out of kiln 22. Girl putting bread on her head and walking toward her home 23. Wide of man rowing his canoe in swamp and muddy water 24. Close up of man rowing 25. Close up of man's feet on a canoe making its way through the swamp 26. Tracking shot of swamp 27. Canoe making its way in shallow marsh 28. Various sunset over marshes LEAD IN: A severe drought is threatening Iraq's southern marshes. The land is part of 8,000 square miles of wetlands fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and is thought to be the traditional site of the biblical Garden of Eden. The region had just started to recover from Saddam Hussein's punitive draining of its lakes and swamps following the 1991 Gulf War. STORYLINE: Iraq's southern marshes are considered by many as the cradle of Western civilisation. This land in the Hor al-Hammar marsh near Nasiriyah, 200 miles south of Baghdad was drained by Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War to punish the people who depended on it for survival. The marshes were coming back to life a few years ago thanks to help from the United Nations. Now they are once again little more than vast expanses of cracked earth. The area's thousands of inhabitants, known as Marsh Arabs, are victims of the debilitating drought that has ravaged much of Iraq and neighbouring countries over the last two years. ''Our conditions have deteriorated more. I have bought this canoe which you see it now on dried marsh," says fisherman Yasir Razaq. " We asked our schoolchildren to leave schools, because we couldn't afford their expenses and buy them clothes. We don't have money or livestock. Now we don't have fish to sell or farms to cultivate. Our standard of living is deteriorated,'' he says. The Marsh Arab culture has existed for more than 5,000 years in the 8,000 square miles of wetlands fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The flooded, flat plain is said to have played an important role in the development of the agriculture-based culture that helped raise civilisation to new heights. They boasted hundreds of species of birds and fish. Periodic flooding created fertile farm lands. The effect was devastating. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/7f8ff48bfe6c0719ab9875dd65d219c5 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
7:26Marsh Arab And Kurdish Human Rights Disasters
Marsh Arab And Kurdish Human Rights DisastersMarsh Arab And Kurdish Human Rights Disasters
Marsh Arabs and Iraqi Human Rights (1992): The victimised shia minority of Iraq's deep south have much in common with the Northern Kurds Subscribe to Journeyman for more: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/9043/short-films/marsh-arabs-and-iraqi-human-rights.html leading Iraqi human rights activist Dr Al Hakim visits the Marshes in the extreme south of Iraq and finds evidence of an escalating military campaign against the Marsh Arabs. The jet fighter attacks stopped after the no-fly zone was declared but the Iraqis still shell the Arabs by mortar. Like the Iranians the marsh people are Shia Muslims whereas the Iraqis are Sunnis. Most families are missing relatives and people have been tortured and every day Iraq is closer to destroying their fragile existence. The Iraqis are also draining the Marsh Arabs' homeland by diverting the rivers which feed it. Contains shocking pictures of an execution of three Kurds by Iraqi soldiers, and black and white footage of Iraqi attacks on another of its minority groups, the Kurds, in 1988. Journeyman Pictures - Ref 12 Journeyman Pictures is your independent source for the world's most powerful films, exploring the burning issues of today. We represent stories from the world's top producers, with brand new content coming in all the time. On our channel you'll find outstanding and controversial journalism covering any global subject you can imagine wanting to know about. -
6:36The Marsh Arabs
The Marsh ArabsThe Marsh Arabs
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2:54Conditions of Marsh Arabs slowly improving
Conditions of Marsh Arabs slowly improvingConditions of Marsh Arabs slowly improving
SHOTLIST 1. Zoom out from boat on the river to wide shot of boat and river 2. Zoom in to fisherman in boat loaded with fish and weighing fish 3. Tilt up from pools of sewage on the ground between buildings 4. Children in the street 5. Zoom in to child's bare feet standing in the mud 6. Boy sitting on a tyre by pools of sewage 7. Young girl running over rubbish into house 8. Young boy sitting in the ground 9. Top shot of boy making his way over sewage ditch 10. Top shot showing children playing around sewage pools and streams in between buildings 11. Bulldozer flattening out new road 12. Man digging trench for sewage pipes 13. Close up shot of man mixing cement 14. Men carrying cement upstairs in large bowls 15. Man building cement walls for staircase 16. SOUNDBITE (English): Cassandra Nelson, aid worker: "As you can see here today this displaced people are leaving under very difficult conditions and in this community here, the Marsh Arabs, have come to live in old abandoned factory warehouses. These are warehouses that were never completed. The stairways don't have railings on them, there is no sewage system, there are no roads, no health clinics and the schools are in abominable conditions. So really we are talking about some of the worse conditions in Iraq for the living standards here." 17. Village elders walking by 18. Pull out from reflection of houses in sewage waters to houses STORY LINE The Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq have lived here for thousands of years - their way of life virtually unchanged. But after a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991, a vast area of the wetlands - some 20,000 square kilometres (12,500 square miles) between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers - was drained on his orders. Saddam spent millions of dollars to build dams and canals to halt the flow of the rivers into the marshes. It was a form of ecological war designed to root out the fiercely independent Marsh Arabs that Saddam saw as a threat to his rule. Only 10 percent of the original marshlands were left. Hundreds of thousands of people who once lived in the marshes were displaced and many now live in deplorable conditions. In Al Amara, 400 kilometres (250 miles) south east of Baghdad, more than nine thousand Marsh Arabs live in old abandoned, partially constructed factory buildings. There's never been working a sewage system, and raw sewage runs throughout the area and collects in large ponds. The children play barefoot, wading through the mud and sewage and there are no schools or health facilities. But the humanitarian aid agency Mercy Corps is working to improve the living conditions of the slum by opening up access roads and doing the more urgent repairs in the old apartment buildings. Today, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi and coalition engineers have begun selective re-flooding of parts of Iraq's former marshlands. But for some Marsh Arabs living in the Al Amara slums, it may already be too late. The younger generation is growing up without learning essential skills such as fishing and farming, making a return to their centuries-old way of life, very difficult. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/e38e957b7a07ba581fd33048e4aa22c0 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
1:53Iraq's Marsh Arabs
Iraq's Marsh ArabsIraq's Marsh Arabs
Garden of Eden was here, this place represents the childhood of the world. every thing started here, agriculture, crafts, religion, art, food cooking, clothing, architecture..... even life started here. -
1:13VOICED Iraq's marsh Arabs forced to live in squalor
VOICED Iraq's marsh Arabs forced to live in squalorVOICED Iraq's marsh Arabs forced to live in squalor
VOICED BY: AMANDA PALMER 0000 Man in boat rowing along 0008 Man in boat weighing his fish 0019 High wide shot apartment blocks and sodden yard 0028 Young boy sitting on ground in filth 0033 More children standing in mud - zoom-in to close shot of feet 0041 High shot boy crossing sewage pit 0046 High shot children standing in muck 0049 Mixing cement 0053 Man plastering wall 0057 Exterior men walking 0102 Close shot sewage zoom-out to buildings 0113 Ends SUGGESTED INTRO: Iraq's Marsh Arab community - historic opponents of the former regime - have lived through a nightmare. Abandoned by the coalition after the first gulf war, Saddam almost completely drained their wetland home in an attempt to flush-out remnants of opposition. Now the water is being allowed to return to the marshes - though very slowly. As the waters rise again, nobody knows what will remain of their ancient culture. SCRIPT: 0000 Water is slowly returning to the massive wetlands which were once a dominant feature in southern Iraq. 0008 Almost 13-thousand square miles of marshland was drained by Saddam - turned to desert - in an attempt to deny opposition fighters their hiding places. 0019 With only 10 percent of the marshes left to live in, the majority of Marsh Arabs were forced to find shelter in places like this - an abandoned factory complex which was only ever partially built. 0033 More than 9-thousand people now live here... their children have no choice but to play in mud and raw sewage. 0041 There are no health facilities here and no schools. Now it's difficult for aid agencies to help because of threats from the Iraqi resistance. 0053 So the people here largely help themselves. This is all they can hope for until their traditional homeland slowly floods. 0102 Only when they're surrounded by fresh water again - will children be able to learn fishing and farming skills. Nobody knows how long that will take, or if the traditional way of life will now survive. 0113 Ends You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/2bb8579097cb04e0c738c3ae08ab2128 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
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Resurrecting Eden
In Iraq, where many biblical scholars place the Garden of Eden, Scott Pelley finds a water world where the Marsh Arabs are making a comeback after Saddam nearly destroyed the cradle of civilization. -
Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq
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Marsh Arabs - Iraq
April 2004 As waters begin to flow back into Iraq's burnt-out marshlands, many hope that it will also revive a dying community. Life for the Marsh Arabs has been a question of survival since Saddam drained the wetlands in the 1990's. Once seen as the 'Garden of Eden' the land is now a salt-encrusted wasteland. "Have you seen our houses -- are they fit for human beings?" asks tribesman Abdul Bari. His village has no hospital and school and his people are locked in a bloody feud with those of the neighbouring villages. The only resource found in abundance here is the huge stash of weapons used in local conflict. The schemes to re-flood the marshes are not always deemed top priority. "What can water do for us? We have no use for it," says a mother of 14. But returning exiles see the rest... -
Saddam Hussein and the Marsh Arabs
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"IRAQ MARSH ARABS" presented by Over the Wire Films ~ Phin Percy & Julie Dermansky
Spread throughout Southern Iraq near the border with Iran, the Marshland Arabs rose against Saddam Hussein following Desert Storm from their nomadic territory, known as the Cradle of Civilization.Hussein retaliated by engineering the largest act of eco-terrorism in history, by cutting off the natural water supply to the marsh. In a few months his acts transformed a lush and green oasis into a barren and arid wasteland, unsuitable for any form of life.This act of vengeance greatly damaged the eco system, and came close to wiping out the oldest living civilization on the planet, along with their culture.After Saddam's fall, the damns were broken, the area re-flooded, whoever, the marsh has only partially been restored. A drought over the last two years has made recovery in the area slow, and... -
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Marsh Arabs on the marshes
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Drought threatens the future of Iraqs Marsh Arabs
Nasiriyah's marshes, Hor al-Hammar, south of Baghdad, April 2nd/3rd 2009 1. Two women walking with their children carrying reeds 2. Wide family carrying reeds 3. Various of canoes on hardened ground 4. Close up cracked ground as a result of drought 5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Razaq, Marsh resident ''Our conditions have deteriorated more. I have bought this canoe which you see it now on dried marsh. We asked our schoolchildren to leave schools, because we couldn't afford their expenses and buy them clothes. We don't have money or livestock. Now we don't have fish to sell or farms to cultivate. Our standard of living is deteriorated.'' 6. Stagnant water in dam 9. Pan dam to stagnant water 10. Various of girls in canoe in marsh 11. Various girls reaping reed for feeding liv... -
Marsh Arab And Kurdish Human Rights Disasters
Marsh Arabs and Iraqi Human Rights (1992): The victimised shia minority of Iraq's deep south have much in common with the Northern Kurds Subscribe to Journeyman for more: http://www.youtube.com/journeymanpictures For downloads and more information visit: http://www.journeyman.tv/9043/short-films/marsh-arabs-and-iraqi-human-rights.html leading Iraqi human rights activist Dr Al Hakim visits the Marshes in the extreme south of Iraq and finds evidence of an escalating military campaign against the Marsh Arabs. The jet fighter attacks stopped after the no-fly zone was declared but the Iraqis still shell the Arabs by mortar. Like the Iranians the marsh people are Shia Muslims whereas the Iraqis are Sunnis. Most families are missing relatives and people have been tortured and every day Iraq is... -
The Marsh Arabs
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Conditions of Marsh Arabs slowly improving
SHOTLIST 1. Zoom out from boat on the river to wide shot of boat and river 2. Zoom in to fisherman in boat loaded with fish and weighing fish 3. Tilt up from pools of sewage on the ground between buildings 4. Children in the street 5. Zoom in to child's bare feet standing in the mud 6. Boy sitting on a tyre by pools of sewage 7. Young girl running over rubbish into house 8. Young boy sitting in the ground 9. Top shot of boy making his way over sewage ditch 10. Top shot showing children playing around sewage pools and streams in between buildings 11. Bulldozer flattening out new road 12. Man digging trench for sewage pipes 13. Close up shot of man mixing cement 14. Men carrying cement upstairs in large bowls 15. Man building cement walls for staircase 16. SOUNDBITE (Engl... -
Iraq's Marsh Arabs
Garden of Eden was here, this place represents the childhood of the world. every thing started here, agriculture, crafts, religion, art, food cooking, clothing, architecture..... even life started here. -
VOICED Iraq's marsh Arabs forced to live in squalor
VOICED BY: AMANDA PALMER 0000 Man in boat rowing along 0008 Man in boat weighing his fish 0019 High wide shot apartment blocks and sodden yard 0028 Young boy sitting on ground in filth 0033 More children standing in mud - zoom-in to close shot of feet 0041 High shot boy crossing sewage pit 0046 High shot children standing in muck 0049 Mixing cement 0053 Man plastering wall 0057 Exterior men walking 0102 Close shot sewage zoom-out to buildings 0113 Ends SUGGESTED INTRO: Iraq's Marsh Arab community - historic opponents of the former regime - have lived through a nightmare. Abandoned by the coalition after the first gulf war, Saddam almost completely drained their wetland home in an attempt to flush-out remnants of opposition. Now the water is being allowed to retu... -
Witness - Guardian of eden - 14 April 09 - Pt2
Sheikh Naim is the oldest representative of the Ma'dan or Marsh Arabs and the keeper of a way of life which goes back five thousand years. -
Textile of Marsh Arabs マーシュアラブの刺繍布展＠常滑SABAI
メソポタミア文明の芸術をそのままに、美しさと物語を秘めたマーシュアラブの刺繍布の世界 マーシュとは｢湿原｣を意味し,アラブはその名の通りアラブ系の人々。 メソポタミア文明の中心地、チグリス川とユーフラテス川の交差する豊かな生態系を持つ湿原は、雨季と乾季の降水量と気温差が激しく、 特にチグリス川の雪解け水が度々、激しい洪水を起こしてきました。 この地域に暮らすマーシュアラブの人々は、湿原で豊富に採れる葦を利用し、家、舟、そして浮島までもを作り、移動と、漁業、そして水牛の飼育をしながら、環境に適応した暮らしを維持してきましたが、1970年台のフセイン政権下で、ダムが建設され、水源が枯れたこと、そしてその後の戦禍によって、壊滅的な状況に追い込まれてしまいました。 今回の展示会では、この失われてしまったマーシュアラブの人々の刺繍の布をメインに、遊牧民の絨毯や布を25年以上に渡り、追いかけているディーラー、バイヤー triBe（トライブ）によるコレクションの展示と販売を行います。http://jutanya.com/ オールドキリムとマーシュアラブの刺繍布展 会場：folk art gallery SABAI 愛知県常滑市瀬木町2-5 日程：2012年9月29日（土）～10月8日（祝日・月） 情報：http://sabai-int.com/ -
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Legacy - The Origins of Civilization - Episode 1: Iraq, the Cradle Of Civilization (Documentary)
Legacy - The Origins of Civilization - Episode 1: Iraq, the Cradle Of Civilization (Documentary) At best, this search for the continuing legacies of past civilizations can help explain how different cultures have developed over time, show how the past greatly influences all our lives, and cultivate a respect for other cultures. At worst, it can send a message that these civilizations have remained virtually unchanged through time, unlike the West, and cultivate a false view of other peoples as less "modern." The negative impact of the assumption that other cultures are not as modern as the West surfaces when Westerners make judgements, business deals, and policy decisions based on this assumption. Although Legacy aspires to the former objective, it often ends up fulfilling the latter. For... -
Surveying the Mesopotamian Marshes
Geoarchaeologist Jennifer R. Smith, PhD, has just returned from a trip to the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in the south and east of Iraq. The marshlands, which once supported a unique culture based on the marshes' natural resources, were drained after the first Gulf War in 1991 to punish the Marsh Arabs for participating in a failed Shia uprising against Saddam Hussein. Although the marshes have been partially reflooded, the ecosystem and the Marsh Arabs have yet to recover from this catastrophe. -
Reviving the marshlands in southern Iraq | Journal
More than half a million people once lived in southern Iraq's famous wetlands. When the Shiites rose up against Saddam Hussein in 1991, they took refuge there. The dictator ordered the draining of the marshes, robbing the Marsh Arabs of their livelihood and destroying a spectacularly rich ecosystem. For more go to http://www.dw.de/reviving-the-marshlands-in-southern-iraq/a-18301544 -
Masha and The Bear - Home Alone (Episode 21)
Follow Masha on Instagram: https://instagram.com/mashaandthebear/ Miracles always happen on New Year’s Eve. Masha finds a magical hat that grants gifts to all of the forest dwellers. She spends the evening running around in a clown outfit bringing joy to all of her friends. Masha and The Bear. All episodes: http://goo.gl/sqBrYd Official website: http://mashabear.com -
Basrah University Assistance 2009
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David Risley 2007 Session 03
For a complete interview with David Risley including transcripts, an abstract, and donated photos see the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Oral History Website at: http://goo.gl/Xwhaxr David S. Risley is a long-time Assistant U.S. Attorney assigned to the Central District of Illinois office. In November 2005 he joined the Regime Crimes Liaison Office, an agency of the Department of Justice, working directly with the Iraqi High Tribunal. David worked on Saddam Hussein’s War Crimes trial for a period of nine months, specifically as an assistant investigator on crimes against the Marsh Arabs.
Resurrecting Eden
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- Duration: 12:44
- Updated: 24 Jul 2011
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In Iraq, where many biblical scholars place the Garden of Eden, Scott Pelley finds a water world where the Marsh Arabs are making a comeback after Saddam nearly...
In Iraq, where many biblical scholars place the Garden of Eden, Scott Pelley finds a water world where the Marsh Arabs are making a comeback after Saddam nearly destroyed the cradle of civilization.
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In Iraq, where many biblical scholars place the Garden of Eden, Scott Pelley finds a water world where the Marsh Arabs are making a comeback after Saddam nearly destroyed the cradle of civilization.
- published: 24 Jul 2011
- views: 6808
Marsh Arabs of Southern Iraq
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:03
- Updated: 18 May 2013
- views: 5849
- published: 18 May 2013
- views: 5849
Marsh Arabs - Iraq
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- Duration: 19:17
- Updated: 16 Aug 2007
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April 2004
As waters begin to flow back into Iraq's burnt-out marshlands, many hope that it will also revive a dying community.
Life for the Marsh Arabs ha...
April 2004
As waters begin to flow back into Iraq's burnt-out marshlands, many hope that it will also revive a dying community.
Life for the Marsh Arabs has been a question of survival since Saddam drained the wetlands in the 1990's. Once seen as the 'Garden of Eden' the land is now a salt-encrusted wasteland. "Have you seen our houses -- are they fit for human beings?" asks tribesman Abdul Bari. His village has no hospital and school and his people are locked in a bloody feud with those of the neighbouring villages. The only resource found in abundance here is the huge stash of weapons used in local conflict. The schemes to re-flood the marshes are not always deemed top priority. "What can water do for us? We have no use for it," says a mother of 14. But returning exiles see the restoration of these lands as a symbolic gesture towards peace. "It was a temple to God, the only place where I felt peaceful," reminisces Azzam, a returning ex-pat. His 'Eden Again' project is an attempt to recreate the past for future generations. But it won't be easy. "It's not as simple as turning on the tap," he says. It will take some clever engineering and nature's own growth for restoration to work. "I dream of having a computer in each of these huts,".
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April 2004
As waters begin to flow back into Iraq's burnt-out marshlands, many hope that it will also revive a dying community.
Life for the Marsh Arabs has been a question of survival since Saddam drained the wetlands in the 1990's. Once seen as the 'Garden of Eden' the land is now a salt-encrusted wasteland. "Have you seen our houses -- are they fit for human beings?" asks tribesman Abdul Bari. His village has no hospital and school and his people are locked in a bloody feud with those of the neighbouring villages. The only resource found in abundance here is the huge stash of weapons used in local conflict. The schemes to re-flood the marshes are not always deemed top priority. "What can water do for us? We have no use for it," says a mother of 14. But returning exiles see the restoration of these lands as a symbolic gesture towards peace. "It was a temple to God, the only place where I felt peaceful," reminisces Azzam, a returning ex-pat. His 'Eden Again' project is an attempt to recreate the past for future generations. But it won't be easy. "It's not as simple as turning on the tap," he says. It will take some clever engineering and nature's own growth for restoration to work. "I dream of having a computer in each of these huts,".
Produced by ABC Australia
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
- published: 16 Aug 2007
- views: 28522
Saddam Hussein and the Marsh Arabs
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:56
- Updated: 10 Jul 2008
- views: 3688
"IRAQ MARSH ARABS" presented by Over the Wire Films ~ Phin Percy & Julie Dermansky
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- Duration: 2:06
- Updated: 12 Dec 2009
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Spread throughout Southern Iraq near the border with Iran, the Marshland Arabs rose against Saddam Hussein following Desert Storm from their nomadic territory, ...
Spread throughout Southern Iraq near the border with Iran, the Marshland Arabs rose against Saddam Hussein following Desert Storm from their nomadic territory, known as the Cradle of Civilization.Hussein retaliated by engineering the largest act of eco-terrorism in history, by cutting off the natural water supply to the marsh. In a few months his acts transformed a lush and green oasis into a barren and arid wasteland, unsuitable for any form of life.This act of vengeance greatly damaged the eco system, and came close to wiping out the oldest living civilization on the planet, along with their culture.After Saddam's fall, the damns were broken, the area re-flooded, whoever, the marsh has only partially been restored. A drought over the last two years has made recovery in the area slow, and climate change makes a full recovery of the marshlands, improbable.
wn.com/Iraq Marsh Arabs Presented By Over The Wire Films ~ Phin Percy Julie Dermansky
Spread throughout Southern Iraq near the border with Iran, the Marshland Arabs rose against Saddam Hussein following Desert Storm from their nomadic territory, known as the Cradle of Civilization.Hussein retaliated by engineering the largest act of eco-terrorism in history, by cutting off the natural water supply to the marsh. In a few months his acts transformed a lush and green oasis into a barren and arid wasteland, unsuitable for any form of life.This act of vengeance greatly damaged the eco system, and came close to wiping out the oldest living civilization on the planet, along with their culture.After Saddam's fall, the damns were broken, the area re-flooded, whoever, the marsh has only partially been restored. A drought over the last two years has made recovery in the area slow, and climate change makes a full recovery of the marshlands, improbable.
- published: 12 Dec 2009
- views: 4231
Marsh Arabs 1
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- Duration: 7:52
- Updated: 24 Jan 2007
- views: 2034
David Axe visits Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq for C-SPAN in the summer of 2005.
- published: 24 Jan 2007
- views: 2034
Marsh Arabs 2
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- Duration: 9:03
- Updated: 24 Jan 2007
- views: 1219
David Axe visits Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq for C-SPAN in the summer of 2005.
- published: 24 Jan 2007
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Marsh Arabs on the marshes
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- Duration: 7:49
- Updated: 23 Mar 2016
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- published: 23 Mar 2016
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Drought threatens the future of Iraqs Marsh Arabs
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Nasiriyah's marshes, Hor al-Hammar, south of Baghdad, April 2nd/3rd 2009
1. Two women walking with their children carrying reeds
2. Wide family carrying reed...
Nasiriyah's marshes, Hor al-Hammar, south of Baghdad, April 2nd/3rd 2009
1. Two women walking with their children carrying reeds
2. Wide family carrying reeds
3. Various of canoes on hardened ground
4. Close up cracked ground as a result of drought
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Razaq, Marsh resident
''Our conditions have deteriorated more. I have bought this canoe which you see it now on dried marsh. We asked our schoolchildren to leave schools, because we couldn't afford their expenses and buy them clothes. We don't have money or livestock. Now we don't have fish to sell or farms to cultivate. Our standard of living is deteriorated.''
6. Stagnant water in dam
9. Pan dam to stagnant water
10. Various of girls in canoe in marsh
11. Various girls reaping reed for feeding livestock
12. Mid girls leaving in canoe
13. Various of women in canoes in marsh
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Talib, Marsh resident
''Our life is too bad and miserable. We have only some buffaloes. We don't have a salary. We have nothing.''
15. Various buffalos
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein Ali, Marsh resident
''When Saddam Hussein was in power the marshes were drained. We left for Najaf province. And when Saddam was toppled and water came to marshes, we came back. Then the marshes were drained again (by the drought). What shall we do? The marshes were dry once again.''
17. Woman carrying pieces of dough and walking towards kiln
18. Close up of pieces of dough of bread on head of woman
19. Various shots of reed being fired in kiln for heating it
20. Woman baking bread
21. Woman bringing bread out of kiln
22. Girl putting bread on her head and walking toward her home
23. Wide of man rowing his canoe in swamp and muddy water
24. Close up of man rowing
25. Close up of man's feet on a canoe making its way through the swamp
26. Tracking shot of swamp
27. Canoe making its way in shallow marsh
28. Various sunset over marshes
LEAD IN:
A severe drought is threatening Iraq's southern marshes.
The land is part of 8,000 square miles of wetlands fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and is thought to be the traditional site of the biblical Garden of Eden.
The region had just started to recover from Saddam Hussein's punitive draining of its lakes and swamps following the 1991 Gulf War.
STORYLINE:
Iraq's southern marshes are considered by many as the cradle of Western civilisation.
This land in the Hor al-Hammar marsh near Nasiriyah, 200 miles south of Baghdad was drained by Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War to punish the people who depended on it for survival.
The marshes were coming back to life a few years ago thanks to help from the United Nations.
Now they are once again little more than vast expanses of cracked earth.
The area's thousands of inhabitants, known as Marsh Arabs, are victims of the debilitating drought that has ravaged much of Iraq and neighbouring countries over the last two years.
''Our conditions have deteriorated more. I have bought this canoe which you see it now on dried marsh," says fisherman Yasir Razaq. " We asked our schoolchildren to leave schools, because we couldn't afford their expenses and buy them clothes. We don't have money or livestock. Now we don't have fish to sell or farms to cultivate. Our standard of living is deteriorated,'' he says.
The Marsh Arab culture has existed for more than 5,000 years in the 8,000 square miles of wetlands fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The flooded, flat plain is said to have played an important role in the development of the agriculture-based culture that helped raise civilisation to new heights.
They boasted hundreds of species of birds and fish.
Periodic flooding created fertile farm lands.
The effect was devastating.
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Nasiriyah's marshes, Hor al-Hammar, south of Baghdad, April 2nd/3rd 2009
1. Two women walking with their children carrying reeds
2. Wide family carrying reeds
3. Various of canoes on hardened ground
4. Close up cracked ground as a result of drought
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Razaq, Marsh resident
''Our conditions have deteriorated more. I have bought this canoe which you see it now on dried marsh. We asked our schoolchildren to leave schools, because we couldn't afford their expenses and buy them clothes. We don't have money or livestock. Now we don't have fish to sell or farms to cultivate. Our standard of living is deteriorated.''
6. Stagnant water in dam
9. Pan dam to stagnant water
10. Various of girls in canoe in marsh
11. Various girls reaping reed for feeding livestock
12. Mid girls leaving in canoe
13. Various of women in canoes in marsh
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Um Talib, Marsh resident
''Our life is too bad and miserable. We have only some buffaloes. We don't have a salary. We have nothing.''
15. Various buffalos
16. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein Ali, Marsh resident
''When Saddam Hussein was in power the marshes were drained. We left for Najaf province. And when Saddam was toppled and water came to marshes, we came back. Then the marshes were drained again (by the drought). What shall we do? The marshes were dry once again.''
17. Woman carrying pieces of dough and walking towards kiln
18. Close up of pieces of dough of bread on head of woman
19. Various shots of reed being fired in kiln for heating it
20. Woman baking bread
21. Woman bringing bread out of kiln
22. Girl putting bread on her head and walking toward her home
23. Wide of man rowing his canoe in swamp and muddy water
24. Close up of man rowing
25. Close up of man's feet on a canoe making its way through the swamp
26. Tracking shot of swamp
27. Canoe making its way in shallow marsh
28. Various sunset over marshes
LEAD IN:
A severe drought is threatening Iraq's southern marshes.
The land is part of 8,000 square miles of wetlands fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and is thought to be the traditional site of the biblical Garden of Eden.
The region had just started to recover from Saddam Hussein's punitive draining of its lakes and swamps following the 1991 Gulf War.
STORYLINE:
Iraq's southern marshes are considered by many as the cradle of Western civilisation.
This land in the Hor al-Hammar marsh near Nasiriyah, 200 miles south of Baghdad was drained by Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War to punish the people who depended on it for survival.
The marshes were coming back to life a few years ago thanks to help from the United Nations.
Now they are once again little more than vast expanses of cracked earth.
The area's thousands of inhabitants, known as Marsh Arabs, are victims of the debilitating drought that has ravaged much of Iraq and neighbouring countries over the last two years.
''Our conditions have deteriorated more. I have bought this canoe which you see it now on dried marsh," says fisherman Yasir Razaq. " We asked our schoolchildren to leave schools, because we couldn't afford their expenses and buy them clothes. We don't have money or livestock. Now we don't have fish to sell or farms to cultivate. Our standard of living is deteriorated,'' he says.
The Marsh Arab culture has existed for more than 5,000 years in the 8,000 square miles of wetlands fed by the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
The flooded, flat plain is said to have played an important role in the development of the agriculture-based culture that helped raise civilisation to new heights.
They boasted hundreds of species of birds and fish.
Periodic flooding created fertile farm lands.
The effect was devastating.
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Marsh Arab And Kurdish Human Rights Disasters
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- Duration: 7:26
- Updated: 22 Feb 2011
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Marsh Arabs and Iraqi Human Rights (1992): The victimised shia minority of Iraq's deep south have much in common with the Northern Kurds
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Marsh Arabs and Iraqi Human Rights (1992): The victimised shia minority of Iraq's deep south have much in common with the Northern Kurds
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leading Iraqi human rights activist Dr Al Hakim visits the Marshes in the extreme south of Iraq and finds evidence of an escalating military campaign against the Marsh Arabs.
The jet fighter attacks stopped after the no-fly zone was declared but the Iraqis still shell the Arabs by mortar. Like the Iranians the marsh people are Shia Muslims whereas the Iraqis are Sunnis. Most families are missing relatives and people have been tortured and every day Iraq is closer to destroying their fragile existence. The Iraqis are also draining the Marsh Arabs' homeland by diverting the rivers which feed it. Contains shocking pictures of an execution of three Kurds by Iraqi soldiers, and black and white footage of Iraqi attacks on another of its minority groups, the Kurds, in 1988.
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leading Iraqi human rights activist Dr Al Hakim visits the Marshes in the extreme south of Iraq and finds evidence of an escalating military campaign against the Marsh Arabs.
The jet fighter attacks stopped after the no-fly zone was declared but the Iraqis still shell the Arabs by mortar. Like the Iranians the marsh people are Shia Muslims whereas the Iraqis are Sunnis. Most families are missing relatives and people have been tortured and every day Iraq is closer to destroying their fragile existence. The Iraqis are also draining the Marsh Arabs' homeland by diverting the rivers which feed it. Contains shocking pictures of an execution of three Kurds by Iraqi soldiers, and black and white footage of Iraqi attacks on another of its minority groups, the Kurds, in 1988.
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- published: 22 Feb 2011
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The Marsh Arabs
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- Duration: 6:36
- Updated: 15 Dec 2010
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- published: 15 Dec 2010
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Conditions of Marsh Arabs slowly improving
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- Duration: 2:54
- Updated: 21 Jul 2015
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SHOTLIST
1. Zoom out from boat on the river to wide shot of boat and river
2. Zoom in to fisherman in boat loaded with fish and weighing fish
3. Tilt up from...
SHOTLIST
1. Zoom out from boat on the river to wide shot of boat and river
2. Zoom in to fisherman in boat loaded with fish and weighing fish
3. Tilt up from pools of sewage on the ground between buildings
4. Children in the street
5. Zoom in to child's bare feet standing in the mud
6. Boy sitting on a tyre by pools of sewage
7. Young girl running over rubbish into house
8. Young boy sitting in the ground
9. Top shot of boy making his way over sewage ditch
10. Top shot showing children playing around sewage pools and streams in between buildings
11. Bulldozer flattening out new road
12. Man digging trench for sewage pipes
13. Close up shot of man mixing cement
14. Men carrying cement upstairs in large bowls
15. Man building cement walls for staircase
16. SOUNDBITE (English): Cassandra Nelson, aid worker:
"As you can see here today this displaced people are leaving under very difficult conditions and in this community here, the Marsh Arabs, have come to live in old abandoned factory warehouses. These are warehouses that were
never completed. The stairways don't have railings on them, there is no sewage system, there are no roads, no health clinics and the schools are in abominable conditions. So really we are talking about some of the worse
conditions in Iraq for the living standards here."
17. Village elders walking by
18. Pull out from reflection of houses in sewage waters to houses
STORY LINE
The Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq have lived here for thousands of years - their way of life virtually unchanged.
But after a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991, a vast area of the wetlands - some 20,000 square kilometres (12,500 square miles) between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers - was drained on his orders.
Saddam spent millions of dollars to build dams and canals to halt the flow of the rivers into the marshes.
It was a form of ecological war designed to root out the fiercely independent Marsh Arabs that Saddam saw as a threat to his rule.
Only 10 percent of the original marshlands were left.
Hundreds of thousands of people who once lived in the marshes were displaced and many now live in deplorable conditions.
In Al Amara, 400 kilometres (250 miles) south east of Baghdad, more than nine thousand Marsh Arabs live in old abandoned, partially constructed factory buildings.
There's never been working a sewage system, and raw sewage runs throughout the area and collects in large ponds.
The children play barefoot, wading through the mud and sewage and there are no schools or health facilities.
But the humanitarian aid agency Mercy Corps is working to improve the living conditions of the slum by opening up access roads and doing the more urgent repairs in the old apartment buildings.
Today, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi and coalition engineers have begun selective re-flooding of parts of Iraq's former marshlands.
But for some Marsh Arabs living in the Al Amara slums, it may already be too late.
The younger generation is growing up without learning essential skills such as fishing and farming, making a return to their centuries-old way of life, very difficult.
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SHOTLIST
1. Zoom out from boat on the river to wide shot of boat and river
2. Zoom in to fisherman in boat loaded with fish and weighing fish
3. Tilt up from pools of sewage on the ground between buildings
4. Children in the street
5. Zoom in to child's bare feet standing in the mud
6. Boy sitting on a tyre by pools of sewage
7. Young girl running over rubbish into house
8. Young boy sitting in the ground
9. Top shot of boy making his way over sewage ditch
10. Top shot showing children playing around sewage pools and streams in between buildings
11. Bulldozer flattening out new road
12. Man digging trench for sewage pipes
13. Close up shot of man mixing cement
14. Men carrying cement upstairs in large bowls
15. Man building cement walls for staircase
16. SOUNDBITE (English): Cassandra Nelson, aid worker:
"As you can see here today this displaced people are leaving under very difficult conditions and in this community here, the Marsh Arabs, have come to live in old abandoned factory warehouses. These are warehouses that were
never completed. The stairways don't have railings on them, there is no sewage system, there are no roads, no health clinics and the schools are in abominable conditions. So really we are talking about some of the worse
conditions in Iraq for the living standards here."
17. Village elders walking by
18. Pull out from reflection of houses in sewage waters to houses
STORY LINE
The Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq have lived here for thousands of years - their way of life virtually unchanged.
But after a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991, a vast area of the wetlands - some 20,000 square kilometres (12,500 square miles) between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers - was drained on his orders.
Saddam spent millions of dollars to build dams and canals to halt the flow of the rivers into the marshes.
It was a form of ecological war designed to root out the fiercely independent Marsh Arabs that Saddam saw as a threat to his rule.
Only 10 percent of the original marshlands were left.
Hundreds of thousands of people who once lived in the marshes were displaced and many now live in deplorable conditions.
In Al Amara, 400 kilometres (250 miles) south east of Baghdad, more than nine thousand Marsh Arabs live in old abandoned, partially constructed factory buildings.
There's never been working a sewage system, and raw sewage runs throughout the area and collects in large ponds.
The children play barefoot, wading through the mud and sewage and there are no schools or health facilities.
But the humanitarian aid agency Mercy Corps is working to improve the living conditions of the slum by opening up access roads and doing the more urgent repairs in the old apartment buildings.
Today, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Iraqi and coalition engineers have begun selective re-flooding of parts of Iraq's former marshlands.
But for some Marsh Arabs living in the Al Amara slums, it may already be too late.
The younger generation is growing up without learning essential skills such as fishing and farming, making a return to their centuries-old way of life, very difficult.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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Iraq's Marsh Arabs
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- Duration: 1:53
- Updated: 06 Aug 2009
- views: 6679
Garden of Eden was here, this place represents the childhood of the world. every thing started here, agriculture, crafts, religion, art, food cooking, clothing,...
Garden of Eden was here, this place represents the childhood of the world. every thing started here, agriculture, crafts, religion, art, food cooking, clothing, architecture..... even life started here.
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Garden of Eden was here, this place represents the childhood of the world. every thing started here, agriculture, crafts, religion, art, food cooking, clothing, architecture..... even life started here.
- published: 06 Aug 2009
- views: 6679
VOICED Iraq's marsh Arabs forced to live in squalor
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- Duration: 1:13
- Updated: 21 Jul 2015
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VOICED BY: AMANDA PALMER
0000 Man in boat rowing along
0008 Man in boat weighing his fish
0019 High wide shot apartment blocks and sodden yard
0028 Youn...
VOICED BY: AMANDA PALMER
0000 Man in boat rowing along
0008 Man in boat weighing his fish
0019 High wide shot apartment blocks and sodden yard
0028 Young boy sitting on ground in filth
0033 More children standing in mud - zoom-in to close shot of feet
0041 High shot boy crossing sewage pit
0046 High shot children standing in muck
0049 Mixing cement
0053 Man plastering wall
0057 Exterior men walking
0102 Close shot sewage zoom-out to buildings
0113 Ends
SUGGESTED INTRO:
Iraq's Marsh Arab community - historic opponents of the former regime - have lived through a nightmare.
Abandoned by the coalition after the first gulf war, Saddam almost completely drained their wetland home in an attempt to flush-out remnants of opposition.
Now the water is being allowed to return to the marshes - though very slowly.
As the waters rise again, nobody knows what will remain of their ancient culture.
SCRIPT:
0000 Water is slowly returning to the massive wetlands which were once a dominant feature in southern Iraq.
0008 Almost 13-thousand square miles of marshland was drained by Saddam - turned to desert - in an attempt to deny opposition fighters their hiding places.
0019 With only 10 percent of the marshes left to live in, the majority of Marsh Arabs were forced to find shelter in places like this - an abandoned factory complex which was only ever partially built.
0033 More than 9-thousand people now live here... their children have no choice but to play in mud and raw sewage.
0041 There are no health facilities here and no schools. Now it's difficult for aid agencies to help because of threats from the Iraqi resistance.
0053 So the people here largely help themselves. This is all they can hope for until their traditional homeland slowly floods.
0102 Only when they're surrounded by fresh water again - will children be able to learn fishing and farming skills.
Nobody knows how long that will take, or if the traditional way of life will now survive.
0113 Ends
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VOICED BY: AMANDA PALMER
0000 Man in boat rowing along
0008 Man in boat weighing his fish
0019 High wide shot apartment blocks and sodden yard
0028 Young boy sitting on ground in filth
0033 More children standing in mud - zoom-in to close shot of feet
0041 High shot boy crossing sewage pit
0046 High shot children standing in muck
0049 Mixing cement
0053 Man plastering wall
0057 Exterior men walking
0102 Close shot sewage zoom-out to buildings
0113 Ends
SUGGESTED INTRO:
Iraq's Marsh Arab community - historic opponents of the former regime - have lived through a nightmare.
Abandoned by the coalition after the first gulf war, Saddam almost completely drained their wetland home in an attempt to flush-out remnants of opposition.
Now the water is being allowed to return to the marshes - though very slowly.
As the waters rise again, nobody knows what will remain of their ancient culture.
SCRIPT:
0000 Water is slowly returning to the massive wetlands which were once a dominant feature in southern Iraq.
0008 Almost 13-thousand square miles of marshland was drained by Saddam - turned to desert - in an attempt to deny opposition fighters their hiding places.
0019 With only 10 percent of the marshes left to live in, the majority of Marsh Arabs were forced to find shelter in places like this - an abandoned factory complex which was only ever partially built.
0033 More than 9-thousand people now live here... their children have no choice but to play in mud and raw sewage.
0041 There are no health facilities here and no schools. Now it's difficult for aid agencies to help because of threats from the Iraqi resistance.
0053 So the people here largely help themselves. This is all they can hope for until their traditional homeland slowly floods.
0102 Only when they're surrounded by fresh water again - will children be able to learn fishing and farming skills.
Nobody knows how long that will take, or if the traditional way of life will now survive.
0113 Ends
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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Witness - Guardian of eden - 14 April 09 - Pt2
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- Duration: 9:20
- Updated: 14 Apr 2009
- views: 5975
Sheikh Naim is the oldest representative of the Ma'dan or Marsh Arabs and the keeper of a way of life which goes back five thousand years.
Sheikh Naim is the oldest representative of the Ma'dan or Marsh Arabs and the keeper of a way of life which goes back five thousand years.
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Sheikh Naim is the oldest representative of the Ma'dan or Marsh Arabs and the keeper of a way of life which goes back five thousand years.
- published: 14 Apr 2009
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Textile of Marsh Arabs マーシュアラブの刺繍布展＠常滑SABAI
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- Duration: 2:16
- Updated: 29 Sep 2012
- views: 221
メソポタミア文明の芸術をそのままに、美しさと物語を秘めたマーシュアラブの刺繍布の世界
マーシュとは｢湿原｣を意味し,アラブはその名の通りアラブ系の人々。
メソポタミア文明の中心地、チグリス川とユーフラテス川の交差する豊かな生態系を持つ湿原は、雨季と乾季の降水量と気温差が激しく、
特にチグリス川の雪解け水が度々、激しい...
メソポタミア文明の芸術をそのままに、美しさと物語を秘めたマーシュアラブの刺繍布の世界
マーシュとは｢湿原｣を意味し,アラブはその名の通りアラブ系の人々。
メソポタミア文明の中心地、チグリス川とユーフラテス川の交差する豊かな生態系を持つ湿原は、雨季と乾季の降水量と気温差が激しく、
特にチグリス川の雪解け水が度々、激しい洪水を起こしてきました。
この地域に暮らすマーシュアラブの人々は、湿原で豊富に採れる葦を利用し、家、舟、そして浮島までもを作り、移動と、漁業、そして水牛の飼育をしながら、環境に適応した暮らしを維持してきましたが、1970年台のフセイン政権下で、ダムが建設され、水源が枯れたこと、そしてその後の戦禍によって、壊滅的な状況に追い込まれてしまいました。
今回の展示会では、この失われてしまったマーシュアラブの人々の刺繍の布をメインに、遊牧民の絨毯や布を25年以上に渡り、追いかけているディーラー、バイヤー triBe（トライブ）によるコレクションの展示と販売を行います。http://jutanya.com/
オールドキリムとマーシュアラブの刺繍布展
会場：folk art gallery SABAI 愛知県常滑市瀬木町2-5
日程：2012年9月29日（土）～10月8日（祝日・月）
情報：http://sabai-int.com/
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メソポタミア文明の芸術をそのままに、美しさと物語を秘めたマーシュアラブの刺繍布の世界
マーシュとは｢湿原｣を意味し,アラブはその名の通りアラブ系の人々。
メソポタミア文明の中心地、チグリス川とユーフラテス川の交差する豊かな生態系を持つ湿原は、雨季と乾季の降水量と気温差が激しく、
特にチグリス川の雪解け水が度々、激しい洪水を起こしてきました。
この地域に暮らすマーシュアラブの人々は、湿原で豊富に採れる葦を利用し、家、舟、そして浮島までもを作り、移動と、漁業、そして水牛の飼育をしながら、環境に適応した暮らしを維持してきましたが、1970年台のフセイン政権下で、ダムが建設され、水源が枯れたこと、そしてその後の戦禍によって、壊滅的な状況に追い込まれてしまいました。
今回の展示会では、この失われてしまったマーシュアラブの人々の刺繍の布をメインに、遊牧民の絨毯や布を25年以上に渡り、追いかけているディーラー、バイヤー triBe（トライブ）によるコレクションの展示と販売を行います。http://jutanya.com/
オールドキリムとマーシュアラブの刺繍布展
会場：folk art gallery SABAI 愛知県常滑市瀬木町2-5
日程：2012年9月29日（土）～10月8日（祝日・月）
情報：http://sabai-int.com/
- published: 29 Sep 2012
- views: 221
Marsh Arab Wedding
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- Duration: 2:40
- Updated: 18 Feb 2015
- views: 62
- published: 18 Feb 2015
- views: 62
Legacy - The Origins of Civilization - Episode 1: Iraq, the Cradle Of Civilization (Documentary)
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- Duration: 50:06
- Updated: 05 Jul 2014
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Legacy - The Origins of Civilization - Episode 1: Iraq, the Cradle Of Civilization (Documentary)
At best, this search for the continuing legacies of past civil...
Legacy - The Origins of Civilization - Episode 1: Iraq, the Cradle Of Civilization (Documentary)
At best, this search for the continuing legacies of past civilizations can help explain how different cultures have developed over time, show how the past greatly influences all our lives, and cultivate a respect for other cultures. At worst, it can send a message that these civilizations have remained virtually unchanged through time, unlike the West, and cultivate a false view of other peoples as less "modern." The negative impact of the assumption that other cultures are not as modern as the West surfaces when Westerners make judgements, business deals, and policy decisions based on this assumption. Although Legacy aspires to the former objective, it often ends up fulfilling the latter. For example, the following statements by writer and presenter Michael Wood exemplify how the language Westerners often use to talk about non-Western peoples relegates them to a space and time outside of a Western view of the universe: "Two conceptions of civilization have fought for the soul of the peoples of the Americas, one foreign and recent, that of the West, the other ancient and native;" "For over 2000 years, China has been sustained by ideas virtually unchanged since the Bronze Age." Throughout the series, comments like the ones above and the relative absence of images of people creating and using modern technology make it difficult for viewers to see the integral roles non-Western peoples occupy in the present.
EPISODE 1: Iraq, the Cradle of Civilization
This episode explores the history of the world's first cities including Baghdad, Ur, Uruk, Erbil, and Sumer, and the development of law and science in this civilization born on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates. Wood claims that the great tradition that produced the "pessimistic," "hard-bitten," and "resilient" people of Iraq can best be seen in the marsh Arabs and Mandeans, two groups whose "way of life has been preserved since long before civilization." He further asserts that "after all its achievements, Iraq reached the modern world as a society stopped in time." Oil and, later, the Gulf War (read: interaction with the West) caused profound changes in Iraq and brought them into the modern world. This static picture of Iraqi society is enhanced by the predominance of images of desolate landscapes and ancient settlements. There are few images which show Iraqis engaged in activity and creative processes, and the majority of these images show them dealing with the destruction caused by the Gulf War.
As in other episodes, one of Wood's main concerns is spirituality. There are several shots of Muslims praying and studying and the episode ends in a temple devoted to Satan. One may question whether his exploration of spirituality gives viewers a better appreciation of Iraqi society or reinforces notions of Iraqis as irrational, religious fundamentalists. While discussing the history of some of the world's oldest cities and how archaeology contributes to our knowledge of this history, Wood commits a serious archaeological faux pas; he picks up artifacts off the ground, explains their significance, and then walks away from the site with them in hand rather than putting them back where he found them. What message does this send to people who find artifacts while visiting sites?
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Legacy - The Origins of Civilization - Episode 1: Iraq, the Cradle Of Civilization (Documentary)
At best, this search for the continuing legacies of past civilizations can help explain how different cultures have developed over time, show how the past greatly influences all our lives, and cultivate a respect for other cultures. At worst, it can send a message that these civilizations have remained virtually unchanged through time, unlike the West, and cultivate a false view of other peoples as less "modern." The negative impact of the assumption that other cultures are not as modern as the West surfaces when Westerners make judgements, business deals, and policy decisions based on this assumption. Although Legacy aspires to the former objective, it often ends up fulfilling the latter. For example, the following statements by writer and presenter Michael Wood exemplify how the language Westerners often use to talk about non-Western peoples relegates them to a space and time outside of a Western view of the universe: "Two conceptions of civilization have fought for the soul of the peoples of the Americas, one foreign and recent, that of the West, the other ancient and native;" "For over 2000 years, China has been sustained by ideas virtually unchanged since the Bronze Age." Throughout the series, comments like the ones above and the relative absence of images of people creating and using modern technology make it difficult for viewers to see the integral roles non-Western peoples occupy in the present.
EPISODE 1: Iraq, the Cradle of Civilization
This episode explores the history of the world's first cities including Baghdad, Ur, Uruk, Erbil, and Sumer, and the development of law and science in this civilization born on the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates. Wood claims that the great tradition that produced the "pessimistic," "hard-bitten," and "resilient" people of Iraq can best be seen in the marsh Arabs and Mandeans, two groups whose "way of life has been preserved since long before civilization." He further asserts that "after all its achievements, Iraq reached the modern world as a society stopped in time." Oil and, later, the Gulf War (read: interaction with the West) caused profound changes in Iraq and brought them into the modern world. This static picture of Iraqi society is enhanced by the predominance of images of desolate landscapes and ancient settlements. There are few images which show Iraqis engaged in activity and creative processes, and the majority of these images show them dealing with the destruction caused by the Gulf War.
As in other episodes, one of Wood's main concerns is spirituality. There are several shots of Muslims praying and studying and the episode ends in a temple devoted to Satan. One may question whether his exploration of spirituality gives viewers a better appreciation of Iraqi society or reinforces notions of Iraqis as irrational, religious fundamentalists. While discussing the history of some of the world's oldest cities and how archaeology contributes to our knowledge of this history, Wood commits a serious archaeological faux pas; he picks up artifacts off the ground, explains their significance, and then walks away from the site with them in hand rather than putting them back where he found them. What message does this send to people who find artifacts while visiting sites?
- published: 05 Jul 2014
- views: 29835
Surveying the Mesopotamian Marshes
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- Duration: 3:51
- Updated: 05 Nov 2010
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Geoarchaeologist Jennifer R. Smith, PhD, has just returned from a trip to the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in the south and east of Iraq. The marshlands, which o...
Geoarchaeologist Jennifer R. Smith, PhD, has just returned from a trip to the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in the south and east of Iraq. The marshlands, which once supported a unique culture based on the marshes' natural resources, were drained after the first Gulf War in 1991 to punish the Marsh Arabs for participating in a failed Shia uprising against Saddam Hussein. Although the marshes have been partially reflooded, the ecosystem and the Marsh Arabs have yet to recover from this catastrophe.
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Geoarchaeologist Jennifer R. Smith, PhD, has just returned from a trip to the Tigris-Euphrates marshlands in the south and east of Iraq. The marshlands, which once supported a unique culture based on the marshes' natural resources, were drained after the first Gulf War in 1991 to punish the Marsh Arabs for participating in a failed Shia uprising against Saddam Hussein. Although the marshes have been partially reflooded, the ecosystem and the Marsh Arabs have yet to recover from this catastrophe.
- published: 05 Nov 2010
- views: 1987
Reviving the marshlands in southern Iraq | Journal
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- Duration: 12:09
- Updated: 07 Mar 2015
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More than half a million people once lived in southern Iraq's famous wetlands. When the Shiites rose up against Saddam Hussein in 1991, they took refuge there. ...
More than half a million people once lived in southern Iraq's famous wetlands. When the Shiites rose up against Saddam Hussein in 1991, they took refuge there. The dictator ordered the draining of the marshes, robbing the Marsh Arabs of their livelihood and destroying a spectacularly rich ecosystem.
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More than half a million people once lived in southern Iraq's famous wetlands. When the Shiites rose up against Saddam Hussein in 1991, they took refuge there. The dictator ordered the draining of the marshes, robbing the Marsh Arabs of their livelihood and destroying a spectacularly rich ecosystem.
For more go to http://www.dw.de/reviving-the-marshlands-in-southern-iraq/a-18301544
- published: 07 Mar 2015
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Masha and The Bear - Home Alone (Episode 21)
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- Duration: 7:00
- Updated: 02 Dec 2014
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Miracles always happen on New Year’s Eve. Masha finds a magical hat that grants gifts to all o...
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Miracles always happen on New Year’s Eve. Masha finds a magical hat that grants gifts to all of the forest dwellers. She spends the evening running around in a clown outfit bringing joy to all of her friends.
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Official website: http://mashabear.com
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Miracles always happen on New Year’s Eve. Masha finds a magical hat that grants gifts to all of the forest dwellers. She spends the evening running around in a clown outfit bringing joy to all of her friends.
Masha and The Bear. All episodes: http://goo.gl/sqBrYd
Official website: http://mashabear.com
- published: 02 Dec 2014
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Basrah University Assistance 2009
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- Duration: 6:50
- Updated: 29 May 2009
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How assistance to the University of Basrah will help in restoring the Mesopotamia Marshes and aide in the return of the Marsh Arabs
How assistance to the University of Basrah will help in restoring the Mesopotamia Marshes and aide in the return of the Marsh Arabs
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How assistance to the University of Basrah will help in restoring the Mesopotamia Marshes and aide in the return of the Marsh Arabs
- published: 29 May 2009
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David Risley 2007 Session 03
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- Duration: 119:45
- Updated: 02 Mar 2016
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For a complete interview with David Risley including transcripts, an abstract, and donated photos see the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Oral History Webs...
For a complete interview with David Risley including transcripts, an abstract, and donated photos see the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Oral History Website at: http://goo.gl/Xwhaxr
David S. Risley is a long-time Assistant U.S. Attorney assigned to the Central District of Illinois office. In November 2005 he joined the Regime Crimes Liaison Office, an agency of the Department of Justice, working directly with the Iraqi High Tribunal. David worked on Saddam Hussein’s War Crimes trial for a period of nine months, specifically as an assistant investigator on crimes against the Marsh Arabs.
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For a complete interview with David Risley including transcripts, an abstract, and donated photos see the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Oral History Website at: http://goo.gl/Xwhaxr
David S. Risley is a long-time Assistant U.S. Attorney assigned to the Central District of Illinois office. In November 2005 he joined the Regime Crimes Liaison Office, an agency of the Department of Justice, working directly with the Iraqi High Tribunal. David worked on Saddam Hussein’s War Crimes trial for a period of nine months, specifically as an assistant investigator on crimes against the Marsh Arabs.
- published: 02 Mar 2016
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Resurrecting Eden
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Saddam Hussein and the Marsh Arabs
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"IRAQ MARSH ARABS" presented by Over the Wire Films ~ Phin Percy & Julie Dermansky
Spread throughout Southern Iraq near the border with Iran, the Marshland Arabs rose agains...
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Marsh Arabs 1
David Axe visits Marsh Arabs in southern Iraq for C-SPAN in the summer of 2005.
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Drought threatens the future of Iraqs Marsh Arabs
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Marsh Arab And Kurdish Human Rights Disasters
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Google's April Fools' joke went so wrong that it might have cost someone their job
Edit TechRadar 01 Apr 2016
We try to avoid as much of April Fools' day as possible on techradar. In fact, as a rule, we'd advise sleeping in until midday, that way you'll avoid all the terrible "jokes" entirely. We can imagine there are a few people at Google who would like to go to bed and start the day again though after its latest feature went south very quickly ... Not so funny ... Meanwhile, Abdus Salam wrote ... ....
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WN.com Week In Review For March 27-April 2, 2016
Edit WorldNews.com 01 Apr 2016
The end of the week comes with the start of a new month and a look back at the Top 5 most viewed stories on WN.com.Maybe you saw these stories when they first appeared on our pages – maybe you didn’t. Either way, let’s take a look back at the past week.. + A report claims Indian priest Thomas Uzhunnalil was crucified by ISIS on Good Friday ... The animal was discovered by a biker ... – WN.com. ....
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Inequality Even Before Birth And After Death: How The Koch Empire Impacted Me
Edit WorldNews.com 01 Apr 2016
Article by WN.com correspondent Dallas Darling After all of these years I have had to come to a dystopian realization that even before my birth and long after my death, the powerful and domineering Koch Empire has – and will continue – to impact me.Indeed, my grandfather was killed while working for Koch Industries ... Nor did my grandmother like to discuss his death ... Consequently, he fell 30 feet from a Koch Industries oil platform....
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South Korea says North fired missile, as US hosts nuclear summit
Edit The Times of India 01 Apr 2016
WASHINGTON ... Barack Obama confers with PM Narendra Modi during a working dinner with World leaders in White House on March 31 ... ....
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Porn and the Threat to Virility
Edit Time Magazine 31 Mar 2016
Noah Church is a 26-year-old part-time wildland firefighter in Portland, Ore. When he was 9, he found naked pictures on the Internet. He learned how to download explicit videos. When he was 15, streaming videos arrived, and he watched those. Often. Several times a day, doing that which people often do while watching that genre by themselves ... After the appeal of those waned, he moved on to the next level, more intense, often more violent ... ....
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Bush Lied About WMDs? Trump’s Outrageous Accusation
Edit The American Spectator 15 Feb 2016
Donald Trump took a page from MoveOn.org in the Republican debate in South Carolina on Saturday night ... George W ... There were never-ending reports that Saddam was months away (estimates ranged from six to 18 months) from an operational nuclear bomb, on top of his equally alarming bio and chemical weapons arsenals, which he previously employed against “enemies” ranging from Kurdish children to the Marsh Arabs to the Iranians and Israelis....
Crimes against the environment: the silent victim of warfare (University of Western Sydney)
Edit Public Technologies 09 Nov 2015
(Source. University of Western Sydney) ... The problem is ongoing ... Scorched earth tactics ... Over the following ten years, the Saddam regime built barriers and levees(opens in new window) to drain the al-Hawizeh and al-Hammar marshes in southern Iraq, an area some believe is the site of the biblical Garden of Eden. This effectively destroyed the livelihood of the 500,000 Marsh Arabs who had inhabited the area of this unique ecosystem ... Ends....
Alex Paton obituary
Edit The Guardian 27 Sep 2015
My friend Alex Paton, who has died aged 93, was a distinguished physician who never sought high office in medicine but did good quietly, mentoring junior doctors, influencing the profession, and using his knowledge of liver disease to improve alcoholism treatment ... He wrote about the Marsh Arabs’ plight, and when the year ended bought a new Volvo and drove back to Birmingham via the Balkans ... He wrote for the BMJ for 50 years ... ....
Exclusive: The Marsh Arabs of Iraq, The Oslo Times interview with Photojournalist Tor Eigeland
Edit The Oslo Times 04 Sep 2015
I was living in Beirut as a freelance photojournalist at the time and TIME-LIFE books asked me to illustrate a chapter for one of their books titled, The Cradle of Civilization. That chapter was on the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. ... I knew about the marshes from British explorer Wilfred Thesiger's classic book on the subject. The Marsh Arabs ... You spent six weeks with the Marsh Arabs....
War, Drought Threaten Iraq's Marshlands
Edit Voa News 31 Aug 2015
The lack of fresh water has also pushed Marsh Arabs who own livestock - mainly cows or buffalo - to search for other sources of water. ... The problem began with the building of dams upstream in the 1970s, and worsened when Saddam Hussein ordered the wetlands drained in the 1990s to punish the Marsh Arabs for the revolt against his rule ... "All the fish in the marsh died....
Were We Right To Take Out Saddam? (Hoover Institution)
Edit noodls 19 May 2015
(Source ... 1. Who authorized the war? ... and foreign intelligence that the Bush administration did ... They included Iraq's noncompliance with the 1991 ceasefire agreement; its "brutal repression of its civilian population," which included genocide of the Kurds and Marsh Arabs; its 1993 assassination attempt on former President George H ... No one has suggested that the Marsh Arabs were not slaughtered, or that the plot against George H....
Water Supply Policy at Core of Middle East Conflicts Reports Fresh Water Advocate Sharon Kleyne
Edit Seattle Post 15 May 2015
Bio-Logic Aqua® Research Founder Sharon Kleyne will discuss water wars in the Middle East on her upcoming Sharon Kleyne Hour™ Power of Water® broadcast of May 18, 2015. Grants Pass, OR (PRWEB) May 15, 2015 ... During the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein notoriously attacked the Marsh Arabs of the Tigris-Euphrates Delta by draining the marshes and cutting off their water – leading the death or displacement of thousands....
Middle East Conflicts in the Watershed
Edit Huffington Post 21 Oct 2014
Below Baghdad, along this same river watershed, lies an enormous lake and swamp system into which all these waters flow, an area that has been home to so-called "marsh Arabs" who had thrived there for a very long time in what were very fertile conditions ... the dykes were broken, the waters returned, the marshes filled, and life began there anew....
"Take a lead, prevent more Iraq slaughter" - Abp of York to UK government (The Anglican Communion)
Edit noodls 26 Aug 2014
(Source. The Anglican Communion) Posted on. August 26, 2014 11.43 AM. Photo Credit. Diocese of York. From the Office of the Archbishop of York, with additional reporting by ACNS ... As a member of the Security Council the Government has voice and a chance to act ... "They should follow the example of Sir John Major who created Safe havens for the Marsh Arabs when Saddam Hussein used chemical and biological weapons against the Kurds. ....
Attacks on Water Supply Next Weapon of Mass Destruction Says Water Activist Sharon Kleyne
Edit San Francisco Chronicle 18 Aug 2014
The Marsh Arabs had lived in the salt marshes of Iraq’s Tigris-Euphrates delta for thousands of years ... The salt marshes had become a major refuge for rebel leaders ... When it was over only about 1,500 Marsh Arabs remained ... Leather, T, “The Marsh Arabs of Iraq,” Scribol, May 19, 2010; http.//scribol.com/anthropology-and-history/the-marsh-arabs-of-iraq....
>Attacks on Water Supply Next Weapon of Mass Destruction Says Water Activist Sharon Kleyne
Edit Seattle Post 18 Aug 2014
The Marsh Arabs had lived in the salt marshes of Iraq’s Tigris-Euphrates delta for thousands of years ... The salt marshes had become a major refuge for rebel leaders ... When it was over only about 1,500 Marsh Arabs remained ... Leather, T, “The Marsh Arabs of Iraq,” Scribol, May 19, 2010; http.//scribol.com/anthropology-and-history/the-marsh-arabs-of-iraq....
6,500-Year Old 'Noah' Found in Museum Basement
Edit Mashable 08 Aug 2014
A digitization project led a museum to discover a 6,500-year-old skeleton in its own basement ... See also ... Image. The Penn Museum ... If it's possible to extract DNA samples, researchers may be able to see if Noah is related to the tribes of "Marsh Arabs" who inhabit the area today. The Marsh Arabs say they've lived in the wetlands of southern Iraq since the time of the Sumerians, and Noah's discovery offers a chance to validate that claim ... ....
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