The Marsh Arabs (Arabic: عرب الأهوار ʻArab al-Ahwār "Arabs of the Marshlands"), also referred to as Ahwaris, the Maʻdān (Arabic: معدان "dweller in the...

Re-Imagined' - Reviving the Cultural Heritage and Lost Knowledge of the Marsh Arabs.” Arab News, May 21, 2021. https://www.arabnews.com/node/1862251/lifestyle...

ethnic groups include Yazidis, Assyrians, Mandaeans, Armenians, and Marsh Arabs. Iraq consists largely of most of ancient Mesopotamia, the native land...

different reasons. In the 1990s, the marshes were drained for political motives, namely to force the Marsh Arabs out of the area and to punish them for...

late 1980s and early 1990s, as part of ecological warfare against the Marsh Arabs, a rebellious group of people in Baathist Iraq. However, with the breaching...

Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula, and The Marsh Arabs (1964), on his time living with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq. Thesiger was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia...

Iran. The Marsh Arabs live in Iraq and Hawizeh people live in Iran. From the time of the Sumerians and Babylonians people lived in the marshes. In the southwest...

academics and poets. The Marsh Arabs or Ma'dãn are a group of Arabs who number 125,000 to 150,000 who live in the Mesopotamian Marshes in southern Iraq. The...

from the marshes in retribution for a failed Shia uprising in 1991. Draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes directly affected the Marsh Arabs, forcing them...

(3 million), Assyrians (0.5 million), Yazidis (500,000), Armenians, Marsh Arabs, and Shabaks (250,000). Other minorities include Mandaeans (3,000), Roma...

needed] The presence of Arabs in Iran dates back to the 7th-8th centuries AD, where under the Sasanian Empire, Mesopotamian Arabs were an important segment...

in his book The Marsh Arabs, notes that cats were allowed free entry to community buildings in villages in the Mesopotamian Marshes and were even fed...

Iraq, identified Y chromosome haplotypes shared by Marsh Arabs, many Arabic speaking Iraqis, non Arab Assyrians, Iraqi Jews and Mandeans "supporting a common...

swamp. The Mesopotamian Marshes is a large swamp and river system in southern Iraq, traditionally inhabited in part by the Marsh Arabs. In Asia, tropical peat...

as Marsh Arabs) in the swamps of southern Iraq. In the traditional Ahwari way of living, houses are constructed from reeds harvested from the marshes where...

tying it over the kuma for formal occasions. During his sojourn with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, Gavin Young noted that the local sayyids—"venerated men accepted...

Field went back to Iraq in 1934 and made anthropometric surveys of Marsh Arabs, Shammar bedouins, and Kurds. In 1941, just before America's entry into...

intensified a prior systematic forced relocation of Marsh Arabs and the draining of the Mesopotamian Marshes in the Tigris–Euphrates river system. The Gulf...

connected to Arab nationalism, which asserts the view that the Arabs constitute a single nation. It originated in the late 19th century among the Arab regions...

Zutt later became what are now known as Marsh Arabs of Iraq. However, genetic studies show that the Marsh Arabs harbor mtDNAs and Y chromosomes that are...

for boat-building of the mashoof canoes that are widely used by the Marsh Arabs. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-01-21. Retrieved...

lake is an important wetland site for birds. The native inhabitants are Marsh Arabs, some of whom occupy villages on artificial, floating islands. Hammar...

in southern and central Iraq. By 1918 the Arab Scouts increased to 5,467 Arabs, Kurds, Turkoman, Marsh Arab and Assyrian militia. At its height, an estimated...

study focusing on the genetics of Marsh Arabs of Iraq, researchers identified Y chromosome haplotypes shared by Marsh Arabs, Iraqis, and Assyrians, "supporting...

he was 72 years old. Return to the Marshes: Life with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq, 1977 - travels with the Marsh Arabs of Iraq (photographs by Nik Wheeler)...

more schools and universities to be set up. While Arabs constitute the largest ethnic group in the Arab League, there are several other ethnic groups that...

types for at least thousands of years. One contemporary example is the Marsh Arabs. Phragmites australis, the common reed, is used in many areas for thatching...

The Arab Union is a theoretical political union of the Arab states. The term was first used when the British Empire promised the Arabs a united independent...

approximately 2,000,000, predominantly Shia Arab. The southern marshes have traditionally been home to many Marsh Arabs. As of 2007, the area is very poor, with...

southern marshes of Iraq. The wholesale destruction of these marshes ended a centuries-old way of life that prevailed among the Shia Marsh Arabs who made...