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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GOTVAND, Iran—Aziz Asadi, a refugee from Iraq's ruined southern marshes, carries in his pocket a crumpled leaflet he said was dropped by American warplanes flying over a homeland he hasn't seen since ...

CHEBAYISH, Iraq—One beaming Marsh Arab child after another leapt off the rooftop of Saddam Hussein's deserted casino into a new lake, the first time they'd been able to swim in the marshland waters ...

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 ...