Photos: Tribal schools of Khuzestan Iran

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Khuzestan is inhabited by a number of ethnic minorities and peoples: Autochthonous Persians in major cities, Iranian Arabs, the Bakhtiari Lurs, Behbahanis, Mizrahi Jews, Laks, and other Lurs of the north, the Turkic-speaking Qashqai and Afshari tribes, the Khuzis of Shush/Susa, Dezful, Shushtar, Andimeshk and the inhabitants of the coastal regions of the Persian Gulf all make up the population of the province of Khuzestan.

Khuzestan province is in the southwest of the country, bordering Iraq’s Basra Province and the Persian Gulf.

It’s mentioned that historically Khuzestan is what historians refer to as ancient Elam, whose capital was in Susa. Khuzestan refers to the original inhabitants of this province, the “Susian” people. Khouzi is also referred to as people who make raw sugar from sugar cane fields of northern sussanian planes up to Dezh river side in Dezhpol.

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