The Al-Kasid women celebrate during the family's homecoming in the 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 women wear black as a sign of mourning for a close loved one that has died; some for a year and some forever after the death...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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