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...Falih al-Saihud, the paramount sheikh of a number of tribes in the southeastern part of the al-Hawiza Marsh. His photo is central in the exhibit, portraying the 85-year-old, six foot tall respected leader as an integrative part of the culture of the Ma’dan...
Entitled “Field Photography: The Marsh Arabs of Iraq,” the exhibit offers a unique glimpse into the lives of Iraq’s Marsh Arabs or Ma’dan tribes that until the mid-1980s lived in mud huts on southern Iraq’s rich Tigris and Euphrates Rivers...
...degradation of these tribes was completed during the Gulf War, when Saddam Hussein, after quelling a rebellion of the Ma’dan (who are Shia Muslims), ordered the construction of a large canal and several dams that in effect were forced to abandon their homes and their culture...
...used by some as proof of liberal bias in the media [Sept. 27]. If the media were truly leftist, they would be clamoring for the indictment of Bush and John Kerry for launching an illegal war on Iraq and for crimes against humanity perpetrated against Iraqis. CBS's Dan Rather may be an idiot, but it's an insult to true progressives to label him a leftist. He's just one more in a line of celebrity journalists. Ronald O. Richards Los Angeles...
...used by some as proof of liberal bias in the media [Sept. 27]. If the media were truly leftist, they would be clamoring for the indictment of Bush and John Kerry for launching an illegal war on Iraq and for crimes against humanity perpetrated against Iraqis. CBS's Dan Rather may be an idiot, but it's an insult to true progressives to label him a leftist. He's just one more in a line of celebrity journalists...