Possible Clues:

• Iraqi city whose name, appropriately, is an anagram of ARABS
• Major Iraqi port
• Iraqi port on the Shatt-al-Arab waterway
• Economic capital of Iraq
• Major port near the Persian Gulf
• First major city north of Kuwait
• Home to the Imam Ali Mosque, built in the seventh century
• Arabs mistreated in Iraqi port
• City on the Shatt al-Arab
• City Arabs rebuilt