Monday, May 20, 2013 @ 6:00 pm-8:00 pm
Mudhifs in the Marshes: Preserving Cultural Identity
The film-maker and travel-writer Mike Laird on the mudhifs of southern Iraq
By Ali Khadr
Mike Laird on Mudhifs in the Marshes: Preserving Cultural Identity
The film-maker and travel-writer Mike Laird talked on the mudhifs of southern Iraq, both their history and construction, and his planned BISI-funded project to build one of these traditional reed houses with the local community in the marshes of Chabaish, between Qurnah and Nasiriyah.
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