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The following links provide general information on Iraqi and Marsh Dweller culture and history, followed by more recent topical accounts on the human situation in the marshlands.

General Background Information

The Land 24 April 2000
http://www.culturalorientation.net/iraqi/iland.html

TED Case Studies: Marsh Arabs
http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/ted/MARSH.HTM

Marsh Arabs (Environmental Literacy Council)
http://www.enviroliteracy.org/article.php/598.html

Science Daily "Marsh Arabs"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/marsh_arabs

Recent Topical Accounts (in reverse chronological order)

Carnegie Council on Ethics and international Relations (April 2004)
Twilight People: Iraq's Marsh Inhabitants by Sayyed Nadeem Kazmi and
Stuart M. Leiderman
http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/4458

United Nations Inter-Agency Assessment of Vulnerable Groups:
Part I: Marsh Arabs by the Office of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq, Lower South June 2003
http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/2003/ohci-irq-30jun.pdf

The Iraqi Government Assault on the Marsh Arabs: A Human Rights Watch
Briefing Paper January 2003
http://www.iraqfoundation.org/projects/edenagain/2003/ajan/marsharabs.pdf

The Internally Displaced People of Iraq. John Fawcett, Victor Tanner.
Brookings Institution October 2002
http://www.brook.edu/fp/projects/IDP/articles/iraqreport.htm

Special Topics on Social Conditions in Iraq: An Overview Submitted by the U.N. System to the Security Council Panel on Humanitarian Issues Baghdad 24 March 1999
http://www.casi.org.uk/info/undocs/spec-top.html

Dr. Suzie Alwash
Senior Project Advisor
e-mail: suzie@alwash.net

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