>>11334470Iraq is not a sand country unlike the other arapic speaking states
>Sawad was the name used in early Islamic times (7th–12th centuries) for southern Iraq. It means "black land" or "arable land"[1] and refers to the stark contrast between the alluvial plain of Mesopotamia and the Arabian Desert. Under the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, it was an official political term for a province encompassing most of modern Iraq except for the Syrian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia in the north.https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/144000/144308/iraqflooding_amo_2018301_lrg.jpg