Guests and tribal chiefs eat first in one of two Motheff. The main course for lunch onsists of boiled lamb and rice at the Al-kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. Family members eat seperately after they've made sure the guests have been taken care of...The Al-kasid family fled Iraq after the Gulf War and their part in the uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991, spent 3 years in Rafa, Saudi Arabia and finally settled in Dearborn, MI. The family hasn't been home to Iraq in 13 years.
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