A long promenade on the Shatt al-Arab, where Basrawis stroll in the evening and boats set out on river trips.
On it stands the statue of the poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, pioneer of Arabic free verse, gazing at the water.
Photos: Lordali91 · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 | David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.0 | Abdulsalam Al Dabbagh · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
Basra Corniche and the Sayyab statue
كورنيش البصرة وتمثال السياب
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