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WomanInMarsh

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WomanInMarsh
A woman in Iraq’s southern marshes gathering reeds. The flexible reeds are used to build arched reed houses in a design unchanged for thousands of years as well as burned for fuel. While men in the marshes fish, women and girls do most of the manual labor including cutting and transporting the reeds. 
Credit: Jane Arraf