The Ghosts of Iraq's Marshes

The Ghosts of Iraq's MarshesA FOREIGN AFFAIRS BEST BOOK OF 2024 The gripping history of the devastation and resurrection of the Marshes of Iraq, an environmental treasure of the Middle East, now a protected site The Mesopotamian Marshes in southern Iraq, once the largest wetland system on the planet, have been inhabited for thousands of years by the Madan, or Marsh Arabs, but they remain remote, isolated, and virtually unknown. In the early 1990s, the Saddam Hussein regime

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