member of the board at The American University of Iraq - Sulaimani, CEO at Nature Iraq
Location:
Orange County, California Area
Industry:
Environmental Services
Work:
The American University of Iraq - Sulaimani since 2006
member of the board
Nature Iraq since 2004
CEO
pacific soils 1987 - 2003
manager
Pacific Soils Engineering, Inc. 1986 - 2003
Lab tech to Principal
Education:
University of Southern California 1983 - 1988
California State University-Fullerton 1979 - 1982
BSc, engineering
Youtube
TEDxBaghdad 2011 - Azzam Alwash
After years of damage and drainage, how can you restore one of the gre...
Category:
Nonprofits & Activism
Uploaded:
05 Feb, 2012
Duration:
16m 9s
Azzam Alwash: Lessons from Iraq's beautiful m...
Azzam Alwash is the Founder and President of Nature Iraq, an NGO dedic...
Category:
People & Blogs
Uploaded:
03 Jul, 2012
Duration:
4m 21s
Azzam Alwash with Ricardo Karam 2012
Azzam Alwash with Ricardo Karam 2012 - For info: info@rkprodgroup... ...
In fact, during the Gulf War, American jets bombed its generator, but the dam remained intact.) The problem, according to Azzam Alwash, an Iraqi-American civil engineer who has served as an adviser on the dam, is that its just in the wrong place. Completed in 1984, the dam sits on a foundation of
Date: Dec 25, 2016
Category: World
Source: Google
A Big Award for the Iraqi Who Helped Restore Iraq's Marshlands
Over the course of ten years, Azzam Alwash has undone about half the damage to the once lush river valley between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which were desiccated over the 30-year period that Saddam Hussein ruled in Iraq. Now Alwash has won a $150,000 award - only given annually to six people
Date: Apr 15, 2013
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Goldman Environmental Prize Winners Offer a Spark of Inspiration
Photo courtesy The Goldman AwardsThe winners (clockwise from top left): Jonathan Deal, South Africa; Kimberly Wasserman, USA; Azzam Alwash, Iraq; Rossano Ercolini, Italy; Aleta Baun, Indonesia; and Nohra Padilla, Colombia.
Azzam Alwash left his comfortable life in California to return to war-torn Iraq, his native country. He helped restore the Mesopotamian marshlands that had been turned into dust bowls by Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, who was executed in 2006.