Locations of the Ahwar of Southern Iraq, World Heritage Site.

Around 20,000 Marsh Arabs live in southern Iraq.

The marshes today remain one of the poorest areas in Iraq.

My mission is of critical importance.

Sh. Abdul Rashid (Pakistan)

Name Sh. Abdul Rashid

The wetlands span thousands of square miles in the middle of desert.

Alwash says he feels vindicated by the UNESCO listing.

Many considered him as the oldest blogger in Iran.

The prohibition is thus entirely based on the country's conservative customs.

But the marshes that survived for thousands of years have taken a beating in recent decades. Iraqi governments since the 1950s began draining parts of the marshes to expand agriculture and drill for oil.

Alanna Shaikh How I'm preparing to get Alzheimer's

Alongside the picture, Sheik wrote

Much of the land along the Gulf Coast is, or was, marshland.

But he was accused of insulting the prophet.

Sara Omar Ahmed Sheikh al Eid, 4 years old.

The shipment of arms was shared between Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Said Indohaade, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys and General Mohamed Nur Galal.

But since Saddam was toppled in 2003, there have been efforts to restore the suffering marsh ecosystems.

There are still threats to the marshes primarily from agricultural runoff as well as drought attributed to climate change.

February 25 Movement Rally Picture by Dedda Ould Cheikh Brahim

Critics of Sheik were not slow to appear online nor to voice their opinion on the streets.

A few years ago, people were looking and laughing at me saying why do you want to restore the marshes?

In the 1980s, at war with Iran, Saddam Hussein sped up their destruction so the marshes couldn't serve as a refuge for fighters.

Asif Sheikh, the CEO and co Founder of A24 Media

Sheikh Said Afandi, killed in August by suicide bomber.

Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

Nevertheless, the independent expert emphasizes the need to continue improving the economic empowerment of women and their participation rate in the social and political spheres.

I told you, I have always been the head of my clan, and neither you nor anyone can change this.

Iraqi American environmentalist Azzam Alwash and Nature Iraq, the group he founded, have set up an eco camp in the heart of the marshes.

While men in the marshes fish, women and girls do most of the manual labor including cutting and transporting the reeds.

Some students of ancient history believe the marshes, lined with reeds, teeming with fish and filled with birds, are the site of the biblical Garden of Eden.

On June 17, the UN cultural agency, UNESCO, added the marshlands and the ancient Sumerian cities that once flourished among them to its list of World Heritage Sites.

He told Daily News Egypt Monday that he denounces Tantawy s anti niqab statement.

Zacharias said to the angel, How can I be sure of this? For I am an old man, and my wife is well advanced in years.

And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

But, as Somalia s new president, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, is a former head of the Islamic Courts, Ethiopia may choose the current status quo in Somaliland over the dream of stabilizing Somalia.

The marshes are in one of the safer parts of Iraq, just a few hours from Basra, but there are few foreign visitors.

Inhabitants of the marshes known as the Ma dan share the floating islands where they build reed houses with domesticated water buffalo, usually a household s most valuable possession.

Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.

Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Sheik Yusuf Indohaadde is in charge of the local administration of Lower Shabelle he assumes the role of governor.

Elections are held every three years for one half of the Senate and each Senator has a term of six years.

Behold, the days come, that I will cut off your arm, and the arm of your father's house, that there shall not be an old man in your house.

Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thine house.