Iraq: Can Iraq Beat the Drought and Become the Breadbasket of the Middle East Again?

Feb 13, 2019 | Kieran Cooke, Middle East Eye
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The area of land in the south of Iraq between the mighty Tigris and Euphrates rivers is drying up. Yet amid this environmental meltdown, Azzam Alwash - conservationist, civil engineer and one of the leading figures in Iraq’s fledgeling ecological movement – remains optimistic.