BISI Appeal Event for Iraqi Scholars - Dr Azzam Alwash, "The Marshes of Southern Mesopotamia"
The British Academy, Wolfson Auditorium, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
THE BRITISH INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF IRAQ
BISI Appeal Event for Iraqi Scholars
Dr Azzam Alwash, "The Marshes of Southern Mesopotamia, Past, Present and Future"
Thursday 24 February 2011 at 6 p.m.
at The British Academy, Wolfson Auditorium, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
This event is generously sponsored by HE Sheikh Hamed Bin Ahmed Al Hamed
A reply form is also available on the events page of the BISI website https://www.bisi.ac.uk and a hard copy flyer will be enclosed in the HCUK January mailing - HCUK members and one guest can attend at the BISI member rate of £10 (others at £12.50 per person)..
For further information contact HCUK member, Joan Porter MacIver on email: bisi@britac.ac.uk
Our distinguished guest speaker, Dr Azzam Alwash, was born in Kut, Iraq in 1958 and spent much of his younger years in Nassariya on the fringes of Iraq’s southern Mesopotamian marshlands. His father, Jawad Alwash, in his role as district irrigation manager was one of the first irrigation engineers to gain access to the marshes and regularly brought his young son along on trips into the marshlands to resolve water disputes. When Dr. Alwash left Iraq in 1978 to escape the Baathist regime, he took along with him impassioned memories of times with his father among the resilient marsh Arabs – memories that would eventually inspire a life of environmental activism aimed at restoring, protecting and preserving the delicate balances within Iraq’s ecosystem In 1997, he became active in Iraqi expatriate politics and joined the Board of Directors of the Iraq Foundation, an Iraqi NGO based in Washington, DC. Prompted by the release of a United Nation’s Environmental Program’s report in 2001 that detailed “one of the world’s greatest environmental disaster’s” – the desiccation of 90 percent of the Mesopotamian Marshlands at the hands of Saddam Hussein’s regime (See Nature Iraq’s “History”) - Dr. Alwash and his wife, Dr. Suzie Alwash, founded the Eden Again Project and began to assemble a group of international experts to evaluate the potential for restoration of the marshes. Their scientific opinion was unanimous - the marshlands could and should be restored. By August 2003, Dr. Alwash quit his consultancy work to direct the Eden Again Project operations in Iraq – the seed for today’s Nature Iraq. More recently, Dr. Alwash joined the board of trustees of the newly established American University of Iraq – Sulaimaniyah, where he founded the Twin Rivers Institute for Scientific Research, which will soon oversee the academic and capacity building activities currently lead by Nature Iraq.
Please send your reply and payment to: BISI /Dr Azzam Alwash Talk, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH Replies will be dealt with on a first come first served basis. For further information contact Mrs Joan Porter MacIver at email: bisi@britac.ac.uk (preferred) or tel. 020 7969 5274 http://www.bisi.ac.uk
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