Zanab Abdallah, 10, Kawther Al-Kasid's neice, peeks from behind a door during the Al-kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, July 30, 2003. The celebration lasts three days with different tribal chiefs, family members and friends coming and going. ..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 Rafha, Saudi Arabia and finally settled in Dearborn, MI. The family hasn't been home to Iraq in 13 years.
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