Tag: mesopotamian marshlands

Meet the Marsh Arabs of Iraq at Dubai Design Week

A Mudhif is built for Dubai Design Week to emulate the lives of marsh Arabs in Mesopotamia and Iraq.

Iraq’s breadbasket gets a $15 million EU grant in agriculture

Farming families in northern Iraq's Nineveh Governorate (the setting of the Jonah and the Whale biblical story!) will benefit from a European Union contribution of €15 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to recover agricultural livelihoods.

Garden of Eden’s Mesopotamian Marshlands in Iraq May Get An Eco Uplift

Middle East architects Raya Ani and Zayad Motlib first told us about their plans for Mesopotamian Marshlands ecosystem and...

Iraq’s Newly Protected Marshes a Huge Conservation Turnaround

We first learned about Nature Iraq's conservation in a combat zone in 2010. Back then Iraq's only conservation NGO seemed...