Author:Fayez Alqanani
About the film
The Marshes (Al-Ahwar in Arabic) is a unique region to Iraq where nature seems to preserve its virgin aspect. It covers a large area surrounding Shatt El-Arab waterway and the union of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers just below Qurna, stretching from Kut in the north to Basra in the south.
The destruction of the marshes started in 1991, after the first Persian Gulf War, when the uprising Shi'ite rebels took refuge in the marshes of southern Iraq. In an effort to flush out the rebels, Saddam Hussein built two canals to divert river flows from the marshlands into the desert.
More about the marshes: www.edenagain.org
The life in the marshes of southern Iraq are difficult. This is a story of the struggle that is life in the marshes.