“The Marsh Arabs have suffered some of the worst repression in a highly repressive political system. In the event of war, there is reason to fear that the marshes area will again be a battleground, ...

The slick Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University has a new next-door neighbor, even if it's a temporary one meant to engage students and demonstrate the diversity of Houston. The structure, ...

Residents of the marshes in Iraq gather inside a mudhif, which is a community center made out of reeds. A similar structure will be built in Houston as part of the Marsh Arabs Project. (Photo from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Marsh Arabs of Iraq are an indigenous population living in the narrow waterways of the Chebayesh Marshes in the country’s ...

There could be an unexpected beneficiary of the war in Iraq: the environment. More specifically, the late, great Mesopotamian marshes -- a decade ago, the largest wetland by far in the Middle East, ...

Some displaced Marsh Arabs (a village near Basra) want more water diverted to the area to expand their homeland, but others reject traditional ways. "We will have to accept that the Marsh Arabs want ...

There is a growing campaign to restore Iraq's southern marshes, the vast area of wetland between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. The region has been inhabited for the last 5,000 years but was largely ...

CHEBAYESH MARSHES, Iraq, Oct 14 (Reuters) - On an island surrounded by the narrow waterways of the Chebayesh Marshes in southern Iraq, Sabah Thamer al-Baher rises with the sun to milk his herd of ...

Instead of traveling across the globe, the Houston nonprofit Archaeology Now and the Arab-American Educational Foundation developed the Marsh Arab Project for the sake of cultural preservation and ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

living in the narrow waterways of the Chebayesh Marshes in the country’s South. They say their entire way of life depends on water. But these waters are threatened by climate change, pollution and ...