Iraq

Iraq: Rivers of Civilization

The birthplace of Mesopotamia, Iraq, is where the world’s earliest cities flourished between the Tigris and Euphrates. Its land spans fertile plains, rugged mountains in Kurdistan, and arid deserts to the west. Summers are extremely hot, while the north sees snow in winter.

Iraqi culture shelters ancient Husainiya and mosques, the call of the muezzin echoing in n minarets. The ancient cities of Ur, Nineveh, Babylon, and the ziggurats whisper of the world’s earliest civilizations. In Erbil, the old Citadel stands in the Kurdish region, overlooking modern growth. The marshlands in the south (Mesopotamian Marshes) remain a living swamp culture with reed houses and wetland life. Iraq is rugged, wounded, proud — a place where civilizations once bloomed and still echo in stone and river.