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The Floating Basket Homes of Iraq: A Paradise almost Lost to Saddam

It was Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’; unique wetlands in Southern Iraq where people were known as the Ma’dan or ‘Arabs of the marsh’. They lived in the Mesopotamian Venice, characterised by beautif…
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