This video introduces the beauty, people, culture, and historic significance of the Iraqi Marshes in the Iraqi southeast, between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers - a civilisation of Marsh Arabs dating back continuously over 5,000 years to the Sumerian people. Saddam Hussein's regime drained the marshes in 1993, but they were restored by local people after 2003, only to be threatened again by a large dam under construction on the Tighris River in Turkey, in violation of international law. UNESCO has accepted an application to declare the Iraqi Marshes a World Heritage Site.

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