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The Daily Life of the Marsh Arab of the Southern Marshes of Iraq Through a Camera Lens

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Southern Iraq's Marshes

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Iraq is considered ecologically unique among the other countries of the Middle East. Such exclusivity can be seen in the presence of a vast are of wet lands located in the southern part of the country and known as marsh areas. The marsh areas are lowlands that filled with freshwater originated mainly from the Euphrates River. Inhabiting in these areas, a distinctive human population known as Marsh Arabs. They may be considered as a relics of the Sumerian that lived in south of Iraq more than 5000 years B.C. The life of the Marsh Arabs is very simple and the people living their used the natural products such as fish and birds besides some plantation that they usually grow. In addition, they breed water buffaloes, which it considered the icon of the southern marshes of Iraq. The Marsh Arabs have a series of daily jobs, where each members of any family has his/her own job to do. In this chapter, the lens of a camera has follow the Marsh Arabs in their daily life and recorded several aspects of this life in photos that the author used to comment on them.

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Jawad, L.A. (2021). The Daily Life of the Marsh Arab of the Southern Marshes of Iraq Through a Camera Lens. In: Jawad, L.A. (eds) Southern Iraq's Marshes. Coastal Research Library, vol 36. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66238-7_39

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