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...Sheikh 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?...
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...
Coming to America as an Iraqi native, Al-Dewachi was surprised at how the West romanticized the lifestyle of the Marsh Arabs as a sort of “primitive Venice.” “In Iraq, ‘Ma??dan’ was a cultural slur, implying ignorance, etc.” he says. “In medical school, the Marshlands were described as an area of disease, full of malaria...
...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...
However, Al-Dewachi is quick to point out, concern for the plight of the Ma??dan “comes and goes in news and in the consciousness of the people...