The Ghosts of Iraq’s Marshes: A History of Conflict, Tragedy, and Restoration by Steve Lonergan and Jassim Al-Asadi has been selected as one of Foreign Affairs’ best books of 2024.
The book is a captivating and illuminating exploration of the environmental and human toll of decades of conflict and mismanagement in Iraq’s southern marshes.
Reviewed by Lisa Anderson in November 2024 and selected as “This Year’s Top Picks” by Foreign Affairs’ reviewers
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The Ghosts of Iraq’s Marshes, is a compelling account of the devastation and subsequent resurrection of Iraq’s southern marshes, an environmental treasure of the Middle East, now a UNESCO World Heritage protected site.
“A stunningly lyrical evocation of the marshes of southern Iraq and the people who call them home. . . .Weaving poetry and environmental science, political analysis and ancient history, mythology and hydrology, the book is at once an edifying and captivating tale about a region threatened yet again by human failures, now in the form of climate change.”
—Lisa Anderson, Foreign Affairs
