Ezzedine Salim (Arabic: ناحية عز الدين سليم‎‎) is an Iraqi subdistrict located in Basra Governorate. It was named after Ezzedine Salim President of the Governing Council of Iraq who was born in the subdistrict . Its capital is the town of Huwair, total area is roughly 135 km2. Ezzedine Salim is rich with water sources, flanked by Euphrates from the south side and marshes from the north east and north west. Total population is 67,500 inhabitants, the majority of them arabs Shi'a Muslims. Many of them work in agriculture, main crops are wheat, barely, and tomatoes, In addition to Agricultural activities associated with marshes such as fishing, buffalo breeding and harvesting of reeds.During the era of Saddam Hussein, Ezzedine Salim subdistrict was suppressed severely where 183 a men have bee