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Ammar Essam
@ammaressam0.bsky.social
• Human rights defender
• Interested in politics,climate change
• Tech hobbyist - Liberal
• basra ,lraq
A member of the Popular Mobilization Forces patrols along the Iraqi-Syrian border in Al-Qaim, west of Iraq on January 23, 2026. The Iraqi government is focusing on its border security after days of fighting between Syrian government forces who have regained swaths of the Kurdish-
February 14, 2026 at 5:33 PM
سكان الاهوار يحرقون بيوت القصب احتجاجا على الجفاف
Marsh residents burn reed houses to protest the drought
January 11, 2026 at 3:00 PM
“In a painful cry of despair, the inhabitants of the southern Iraqi marshes set fire to their traditional guesthouse, declaring their protest against the deadly drought that is consuming their land and choking their heritage.”
December 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
In the marshes, residents hang buffalo horns on the doors and roofs of their homes for a variety of profound reasons. They are considered a symbol of protection from envy and the evil eye, and an indication of sustenance and blessings, as buffalo are a primary source
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Civilization dried up, the marshes dried up
December 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
@bsky.app We would like the Arabic language option in the app, please.
December 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Plates from ancient Iran, some ranging as far as over 2000 years old! These are from my favorite museum, #abginehmuseum in Tehran. #ceramicart #ceramics #iranianceramics
December 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Marsh Arabs eating a feast inside the hostel in the 1970s
عرب الأهوار أثناء تناول وليمة داخل المضيف في سبعينات القرن الماضي
October 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
A view of a waterway in a village in the marshes of southern Iraq by Tor Egeland
مشهد لممر مائي في احدى قرى أهوار جنوب العراق بواسطة تور ايجبلاند
October 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
نيك ويلر (مواليد 1939، إنجلترا) هو مصور بريطاني اشتهر بتوثيق أحداث تاريخية مهمة، من بينها الصورة الوحيدة لكارلوس الثعلب أثناء حرب فيتنام. في السبعينيات، انتقل إلى بيروت للعمل في الشرق الأوسط، حيث وثّق الحياة في الأهوار العراقية في كتابه “العودة إلى الأهوار” الذي شارك في تأليفه مع الكاتب غافين يونغ.
October 15, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Pre-dawn scene from the marshes of Iraq in the 1950s by Tor Egeland from When the Earth Was Sea
مشهد ماقبل الفجر من أهوار العراق في خمسينات القرن الماضي بواسطة تور إيجيلاند من كتاب عندما كانت الارض بحراً
October 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Back in the ’90s, Saddam Hussein did something pretty insane — he basically destroyed one of the oldest ecosystems on Earth. He drained the Mesopotamian Marshes, which people have called the “Garden of Eden” for thousands of years..
October 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
عرب الاهوار يقومون بتجميع الاسماك بعد صيدها في سبعينات القرن الماضي
Marsh Arabs collect fish after catching them in the 1970s.
October 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Boat movement in one of the Marsh Arab villages in southern Iraq in the seventies of the last century
حركة القوارب في احدى قرى عرب الاهوار في جنوب العراق في سبعينات القران الماضي
October 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM
ام وطفلها من عرب الاهوار قرب الناصريه , سبعينات القرن الماضي , من ارشيف كامل الجادرجي
A mother and her child from the Marsh Arabs near Nasiriyah, 1970s, from the archives of Kamel Al-Jaderji
October 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Boat movement in the village of Arab marshes
حركة القوارب في قرية عرب الاهوار
October 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Marshes of southern Iraq
September 28, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The Iranian art of Illumination by Zahra Jalal
September 24, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Marsh Arabs steer wooden boats along channel past Marsh Arab village of reed houses in the wetlands of Southern Iraq formed by Tigris and Euphrates rivers circa 1978. (Photo by Nik Wheeler/Corbis via Getty
September 20, 2025 at 11:58 AM
NASARIYAH - JANUARY 1975: Marsh Arab villages of woven reed houses on small islands dot the landscape where the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers meet at the legendary site of the Garden of Eden. The Marshes were drained by Saddam Hussein after the Shiite Muslim inhabitants rebelled against
September 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
SOUTHERN IRAQ - CIRCA 1978: Marsh Arab men paddle in small boats to fishing grounds in the wetlands of Southern Iraq where Tigris and Euphrates rivers meet circa 1978. (Photo by Nik Wheeler/Corbis via Getty Images)
September 13, 2025 at 3:52 PM
A Marsh Arab boy loads an armful of reeds into a canoe in the Marshes of Iraq. | Location: The Marshes, near Nasiriya, Iraq. (Photo by nik wheeler/via Getty Images)

صبي من عرب الأهوار يحمل حفنة من القصب في زورق في الأهوار العراقية. | الموقع: الأهوار، بالقرب من الناصرية، العراق. (تصوير نيك ويلر )
September 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The Al-Rahman Mosque archway, designed in the shape of a ship's sail, symbolizes the heritage of the Gulf city of Al-Faw.
Constructed in 1989.
قوس جامع الرحمن المصمم على شكل شراع سفينة كدلالة على تراث مدينة الفاو الخليجية.
شُيد عام ١٩٨٩م.
September 8, 2025 at 7:27 PM
A journey in search of traces of water.
رحلة بحث عن آثار الماء.
September 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Marsh Arab men hunt waterfowl from a canoe, Nick Wheeler

رجال من عرب الأهوار يصطادون طائر الماء من زورق،نيك ويلر
September 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM