Ezzedine Salim ( ar, ناحية عز الدين سليم) is an Iraqi subdistrict located in Basra Governorate with a total area of roughly 135 km². It was named after

Ezzedine Salim Ezzedine Salim ( ar, عز الدين سليم), also known as Abdelzahra Othman Mohammed (23 March 1943 – 17 May 2004, عبد الزهراء عثمان محمد), was an Iraqi politician, author, educator, Islamist theorist and one of the leadin ...

, President of the Governing Council of Iraq, who was born in the subdistrict. Its capital is the town of Huwair. Ezzedine Salim is rich with water sources, being bordered by the

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in the south side and marshes in the north east and north west. The total population is 67,500 inhabitants, the majority of them

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. Many of them work in agriculture, with the main crops being

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, and

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. In addition to agriculture they also practice traditional activities associated with marshes such as fishing, buffalo breeding and harvesting of reeds. During the era of

Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein ( ; ar, صدام حسين, Ṣaddām Ḥusayn; 28 April 1937 – 30 December 2006) was an Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq from 16 July 1979 until 9 April 2003. A leading member of the revolution ...

, Ezzedine Salim subdistrict was oppressed severely wherein 183 men were executed for political reasons, in addition to the disastrous economic, sociological, and ecological brought on by the draining of the surrounding marshes.

Huwair town

Huwair is the seat of the Ezzedine Salim subdistrict and has a total population of 67,500. It is situated on the bank of

, 85 km north of

Basra Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is hand ...

. Huwair is an industrial town containing more than 2,000 workshop and timber-yard produces doors and furniture. Huwair is also a major center for boat-building, particularly of the mashoof and

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canoes used widely by the

Marsh Arabs The Marsh Arabs ( ar, عرب الأهوار ''ʻArab al-Ahwār'' "Arabs of the Marshlands"), also referred to as the Maʻdān ( ar, معدان "dweller in the plains") or Shroog (Iraqi ar, شروق, "those from the east")—the latter two often ...

West Qurana oil fields phase 2

West Qurana oil fields phase 2 is a large

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in the subdistrict that holds an estimated 13 billion barrels of raw oil. It was first explored by Soviet firms in 1973, but development had been postponed to 2009, and real production only began in late 2013 with 120,000 barrels per day. The oilfield is exploited by a consortium led by Russian company

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, with a 56.25% stake, Iraqi state-owned

South Oil Company Basra Oil Company (BOC) is a national Iraqi company responsible for the oil in the south of Iraq. It is situated in Basra. BOC is one of the major fundamental formations of the Iraq National Oil Company (INOC). It was the first nucleus and the ...

with a 25% stake, and

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with an 18.75% stake.

People from Ezzedine Salim subdistrict

References

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