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		But I must tell you the camp was pitched quite near the little village which is the headquarters of the principal shaikh of the district, Ibadi al Husain - I knew him before, of course.
		On either side of the hearth, against the reed walls of the mudhif, a row of brocade-covered cushions for us to sit on, the Arabs flanking us and the coffee-maker crouched over his pots.
		The whole lighted by the fire and a couple of small lamps, and the end of the mudhif fading away into a golden gloom.
	www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk /letters/l1329.htm (1691 words)

	Saudi Aramco World : The Marsh Arabs Revisited (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		These structures differ in shape and size, according to their purpose, but the most striking of the designs is that of the mudhif, or guest house, built only by prominent members of the village as a place where travelers and visitors can rest, eat and refresh themselves while they exchange the latest news and gossip.
		Years before, the foundations of the mudhif had been laid by fencing off an area of marsh and filling it in with reeds and mud until the surface was above water and dry-an "island".
		Next, the workmen, crouched on scaffolding also made of the reed bundles, attached mats, woven of fine reeds by the women and children, to the exterior of the frame and at each end, built arched doorways supported by twin pillars.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/198202/the.marsh.arabs.revisited.htm (2423 words)

	Research Centre and Museums of the Iraqi Marshes
		The softly bending walls and lines of the plans are influenced by the soft arch forms of the mudhif (marsh guest house), subtly learning from this noble building type, but not imitating it.
		The initial study, while is influenced by the shape of the mudhif, incorporated the badgeer (wind scoop).
		The soft arch forms of the mudhif were transformed into softly bending walls and lines of the buildings’ plans.
	www.tappuni.com /rcmim.html (3514 words)

	Laputan Logic - Life on the Edge of the Marshes
		Because of its size and architectural splendor, the mudhif, a grand arched structure built entirely of reeds by sheikhs, would dominate the horizon as one approached a village lucky enough to preserve one.
		One end was used as a dwelling, the other end could be used to house animals in inclement weather, as a part of the dwelling, or as a workshop if either the wife or husband were craftspeople.
		In villages where no mudhif existed, the second room of the largest raba often served the same purposes: as a meeting place and guest house.
	www.laputanlogic.com /articles/2004/04/14-0001.html (4143 words)

	Online Review: The Prince of the Marshes
		An interior of a mudhif, or reed house, typical of the marsh Arab regions of Maysan near the provincial town of Amara.
		The "mudhif the British occupier built" is a perversion of custom and tradition, a totem of humiliation, a gesture of invasion and occupation, an act of colonialism.
		So the burning down of the "mudhif the British occupier built" is viewed by the marsh tribes as an act of nationalism, a heroic reassertion of even deeper Iraqi tradition.
	www.nichenews.com /c/commentary/083006.html (3085 words)

	Laputan Logic - Marsh Arabs
		While the Zair and Sadam discussed the levy of reeds which Falih had demanded for his father's new mudhif [guest house], the Zair's son arrived back.
		High overhead, banks of cirrus cloud, blown to tattered streams, ranged from ebony to flaming gold and the colour of old ivory, against a background of vermilion and orange, violet, mauve, and palest green.
		View from the top of a mudhif These photos were taken in 1974 by Nik Wheeler
	www.laputanlogic.com /articles/2004/01/24-0001.html (2184 words)

	Marsh Arabs - Wikinfo
		Though often paying far more than the agriculture, weavers are looked down upon by both Ma'dan and farmers alike, though financial concerns mean that gradually it is gaining acceptance as a respectable profession.
		As with most tribes of southern Iraq, the sheik of a Marsh Arab group will collect a tribute from his tribesmen in order to maintain the mudhif, the tribal guesthouse which acts as the political, social, judicial and religious centre of Marsh Arabic life.
		The mudhif is used as a place to settle disputes, carry out diplomacy with other tribes and the gathering point for religious celebrations and prayer.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Marsh_Arabs (1413 words)

	Letter from Baghdad: The Uprising: The New Yorker
		The platform was not far from Jamaluddin’s most conspicuous contribution to the garden, a mudhif, a reed house with an arched roof, traditionally used for meetings by the Marsh Arabs of southern Iraq.
		Jamaluddin’s mudhif is about twenty feet wide by eighty feet long and stands perhaps twenty feet high.
		The mudhif is air-conditioned, but it also has elegant ceiling fans.
	www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?040503fa_fact (1243 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Books Supplement \| 'First Impressions of the Madan'
		While the Zair and Sadam discussed the levy of reeds which Falih had demanded for his father's new mudhif [guest house], the Zair's son arrived back.
		He unloaded the hashish [animal fodder], feeding some of it to the buffaloes and then piling the rest just inside the house.
		High overhead, banks of cirrus cloud, blown to tattered streams, ranged from ebony to flaming gold and the colour of old ivory, against a background of vermilion and orange, violet, mauve, and palest green.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/660/bo5.htm (418 words)

	Tracking Down Pan’s Pipes at After Gutenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Dwellings and barns straddled the waters on fixed islands laboriously constructed from layer upon layer of hand-woven reed matting and mud.
		When I first saw a picture of the inside of a mudhif, or guest house, it struck me how much the vaulted ceilings of such intricately woven reed dwellings resembled the hull of an overturned boat.
		It also is interesting to note that the mudhif, like the “long house” found throughout Asia, Europe and North America, is a multi-purpose community center.
	jcwinnie.biz /wordpress/?p=876 (1376 words)

	[permaculture] Re: Restoring the Marshes of Mesopotamia (fwd)
		We brought the boat to the largest island, disembarked and were greeted warmly and loudly by the villagers.
		They grandly showed us to the guesthouse (know as a mudhif) constructed of bundles of reeds bound together, where men sat on richly embroidered carpets, arguing and laughing and tending endless pots of strong fl tea.
		The air inside the mudhif was blessedly cooler.
	lists.ibiblio.org /pipermail/permaculture/2004-November/020711.html (1805 words)

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		Suddam Hussein had promised the Arabs villages to have electricity and clean water for draining their marsh; however, the Marsh Arabs live in simple and plane villages.
		The main house or meeting place in the village is called the mudhif.
		The mudhif in their new village has only one single light bulb.
	www.students.m.csbsju.edu /mtmiron/January_20_2005.htm (696 words)

	Madan
		The people of Madan lived in the marshes of what is now southern Iraq.
		They lived in unique traditional houses called mudhif.
		More recently under the regime of Saddam Hussein the swamp lands have mostly been drained in an effort to create irrigation systems, however some believe the purpose was to destroy the homes of the Madan people and other Shi'a Muslims who were rebels against Saddam during the 1990s.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/m/ma/madan.html (110 words)

	Laputan Logic - Gender in the Marshes
		The sheikh was away looking at his cultivations, but we were shown to his mudhif [guest house made of reeds] by a boy wearing a head-rope and cloak, with a dagger at his waist.
		He looked about fifteen and his beautiful face was made even more striking by two long braids of hair on either side.
		We eat with her and she may sit in the mudhif.
	www.laputanlogic.com /articles/2006/02/22-0939-6178.html (890 words)

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	Can Iraq Become An Eden Again?
		We brought the boat to the largest island, disembarked and were greeted warmly and loudly by the villagers.
		They grandly showed us to the guesthouse (know as a mudhif) constructed of bundles of reeds bound together, where men sat on richly embroidered carpets, arguing and laughing and tending endless pots of strong fl tea.
		The air inside the mudhif was blessedly cooler.
	www.guerrillanews.com /headlines/headline.php?id=211 (498 words)

	Madan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The people of Madan lived in the marshes of what is now southern Iraq.
		They lived in unique traditional houses called mudhif.
		More recently under the regime of Saddam Hussein the swamp lands have mostly been drained in an effort to create irrigation systems, however some believe the purpose was to destroy the homes of the Madan people and other Shi'a Muslims who were rebels against Saddam during the 1990s.
	www.askfactmaster.com /Madan (103 words)

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		He sat cross-legged in a carpeted mudhif, or guesthouse, of the kind described in Thesiger's "The Marsh Arabs" -- a lofty barn made almost entirely of reeds, bound into flattened horseshoe arches to support poles overlaid by matting.
		The mudhif's ceiling fans and electric lights are not the only reminders this is no longer Thesiger's watery idyll.
		Outside are cement-walled houses in a dusty courtyard down a short track from an asphalt road.
	www.waterconserve.info /shared/reader/welcome.aspx?Linkid=30854 (836 words)

	Potential for Water Wars
		The Marsh Arabs have evolved a unique subsistence lifestyle that is firmly rooted in their aquatic environment.
		Marsh men gather under the cathedral-like arches of the mudhif, a guest house made completely of reeds, that is a 5000-year-old cultural legacy of Sumer.
		Most of the experts who spoke at the World Food Prize symposium were optimistic that technology and know-how are available to solve many of the problems.
	www.public.iastate.edu /~mariposa/waterwars.htm (4369 words)

	Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
		The Marsh Arabs use the reed wetlands for traditional sustainable agriculture and livelihood.
		They construct reed houses (‘mudhif') and long reed canoes (‘mashuf'), gather reeds for mat and basket weaving, cultivate cereals (wet rice, great millet) and date palm, graze large livestock (cows, water buffalo), fish and hunt.
		Water channels among the reeds enable them to transport their goods and produce to domestic markets.
	www.fao.org /sd/giahs/other_iraq_desc.asp (362 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation > America's War on Terror -- Three suspected militants, one on most-wanted ...
		The police commander in the raid, Lt. Col.
		Mudhif al-Talhi, was wounded, but not seriously, security officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
		The security forces evacuated seven women and a child whom the militants had placed on the first floor of the house "to use as shields and to mislead the security forces," the statement said, quoting an unnamed Interior Ministry official.
	signonsandiego.com /news/nation/terror/20041012-1507-saudi-terror.html (506 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While ethnographic studies will be used to explore social relations behind skilled craftsmanship and technologies of production, comparative evidence will be drawn from the archaeology of the Near East.
		This involves both architectural monuments such as Neo-Assyrian palaces or the reed mudhif of Marsh Arabs, and artifacts such as Phoenician ivories or the Afro-Portuguese brasswork of Benin.
		Formation and circulation of craft knowledge, cultural biography of artifacts, constitution of cultural identities and collective memory through material processes, materiality and representationality of artifacts will be central in class discussions.
	www.reed.edu /~harmanso/art326.html (203 words)

	College Catalog - Reed College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While post-colonial ethnographies will be used to explore social relations behind craftsmanship and technologies of production, archaeological material from the Near East will be studied comparatively.
		This involves monuments such as Neo-Assyrian palaces or the reed mudhif of Marsh Arabs, and artifacts such as Phoenician ivories or the Afro-Portuguese brasswork of Benin.
		Formation and circulation of craft knowledge, cultural biography of artifacts, cultural identities and collective memory, materiality and representationality of artifacts will be central in class discussions.
	web.reed.edu /catalog/courses/art/art326.html (173 words)

	Laputan Logic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The sheikh was away looking at his cultivations, but we were shown to his mudhif [guest house made of reeds] by a boy wearing a head-rope and cloak, with a dagger at his waist.
		He looked about fifteen and his beautiful face was made even more striking by two long braids of hair on either side.
		We eat with her and she may sit in the mudhif.
	clickcop.com /clickcop.cgi/110110A/http/www.laputanlogic.com (14429 words)

	Amara residents find a way to live in peace \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		In a tribal trial called a fahsal, the attackers' families agreed to pay $18,000 in damages and to banish the two men from Amara.
		A short time later, the Kaabi tribe invited the town's leading tribal sheiks to its mudhif, a guest house made of reeds that is like a town hall.
		Suddenly, the stakes for carrying out an attack were substantially higher.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060710/news_1n10amara.html (439 words)

	A mudhif is a traditional reed house made by the people... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A mudhif is a traditional reed house made by the people...
		A "mudhif" is a traditional reed house made by the people of Madan Madan, on the swamps.
		A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
	www.biodatabase.de /Mudhif (83 words)

	mudhif - English-Italian Dictionary - WordReference.com
		We found no English translation for 'mudhif' in our English to Italian Dictionary.
		Discussioni nei forum nel cui titolo è presente la parola 'mudhif':
		Non ci sono titoli che contengano la parola/frase 'mudhif'.
	www.wordreference.com /enit/mudhif (61 words)

	Art 326: Material Worlds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While ethnographic studies will be used to explore social relations behind skilled craftsmanship and technologies of production, comparative evidence will be drawn from the archaeology of the Near East.
		This involves both architectural monuments such as Neo-Assyrian palaces or the reed mudhif of Marsh Arabs, and artifacts such as Phoenician ivories or the Afro-Portuguese brasswork of Benin.
		Formation and circulation of craft knowledge, cultural biography of artifacts, constitution of cultural identities and collective memory through material processes, materiality and representationality of artifacts will be central in class discussions.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/Harmansah/art326/index.html (190 words)

	mudhif - French-English Dictionary WordReference.com
		We found no English translation for 'mudhif' in our English to French Dictionary.
		Or did you want to translate 'mudhif' from French to English?
		Forums WR : discussions dont le titre comprend le mot "mudhif".
	www.wordreference.com /enfr/mudhif (65 words)

	Voices in the Wilderness : A Full House for the Boat Trip
		Lastly, because the press came out in droves for this project (yippee) we’ve decided to end it with a press conference.
		I found this big house owned by Sheik Ayad Jamal Al-Din on the river in Jadriyah with a Mudhif (a traditional Arab house) in the back yard.
		That will be our drop off point and the location of the press conference, and then our boats (now empty) will return up-river.
	vitw.org /archives/252 (261 words)

	Where Plan A left Ahmad Chalabi - Africa & Middle East - International Herald Tribune
		Those vast holdings are reduced to the compound where Chalabi now stands.
		It's about 10 acres, including the main house, which a team of workers is renovating, a large swimming pool, a grove of date palms and, in the back, a mudhif.
		There is a row of garages, decrepit now, where workers once serviced the machinery and trucks that brought the wheat and dates to market.
	rasa.iht.com /articles/2006/11/03/africa/web.1103chalabi.php?page=5 (916 words)

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