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The Marshes

Kassem Hawal

The Marshes (Al Ahwar) documents the marsh people of southern Iraq in the 1970s at a time when they were dependent on reed exports for papermaking. In the 1980s, when rebels hid in the reeds, the government diverted waterflow as punishment, draining the marsh lifeblood. Today, the marshes verge on environmental collapse as upstream dams occlude waterflow and global warming intensifies drought.
Country: Iraq
Time: 43
Year: 1976