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  • A villager chops wood from a date tree for cooking fire during the Al-kasid family's homecoming in their home village of Suq ash Shuyukh, Iraq.
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  • Members of the extended Al-kasid family participate in Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, 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. ..When Malik Al-kasid's caravan approached, guns were fired to announce his family's arrival. The welcming party then, returns fire to welcome him. The two parties move toward each other dancing and shooting until they join in the middle where the Hawaies occurs. ..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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  • Members of Al Hacham Tribe and the extended Al-kasid family participate in Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, 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.
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  • Emad Al-kasid, with rifle in air, performs Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, at the Al-kasid family's Istikbal in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003....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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  • Members of the extended Al-kasid family participate in Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, 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. ..When Malik Al-kasid's caravan approached, guns were fired to announce his family's arrival. The welcming party then, returns fire to welcome him. The two parties move toward each other dancing and shooting until they join in the middle where the Hawaies occurs. ..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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  • Malik Al-kasid gets dressed traditional Arabic clothing before he returned to his home village Soug Al-Sheuk on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. 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.hThe family hasn't been home to Iraq in 13 years.
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  • Members of Al Hacham Tribe and the extended Al-kasid family participate in Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, 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.
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  • A member of the Al Hacham Tribe holds his Russian-made BKC machine gun as members of the extended Al-kasid family participate in  Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, 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.
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  • A member of the Al Hacham Tribe holds his Russian-made BKC machine gun as members of the extended Al-kasid family participate in  Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, 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.
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  • Emad Al-kasid, with rifle in air, performs Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, at the Al-kasid family's Istikbal in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003....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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  • Emad Al-kasid, at right with rifle in air, performs Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, at the Al-kasid family's Istikbal in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003....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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  • Emad Al-kasid, left in gold and black, and his father Malik Al-kasid, in gray suit coat, participate in Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, 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. ..When Malik Al-kasid's caravan approached, guns were fired to announce his family's arrival. The welcming party then, returns fire to welcome him. The two parties move toward each other dancing and shooting until they join in the middle where the Hawaies occurs. ..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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  • Malik Al-kasid, center in gray suit coat, and his son Emad Al-kasid, behind him in gold and black, participate in Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, at the Al-kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village of Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. ..When Malik Al-kasid's caravan approached, guns were fired to announce his family's arrival. The welcming party then, returns fire to welcome him. The two parties move toward each other dancing and shooting until they join in the middle where the Hawaies occurs. ..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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  • Emad Al-kasid, in gold and black, and his father Malik Al-kasid, in gray suit coat, participate in Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, at the Al-kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village of Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. ..When Malik Al-kasid's caravan approached, guns were fired to announce his family's arrival. The welcming party then, returns fire to welcome him. The two parties move toward each other dancing and shooting until they join in the middle where the Hawaies occurs. ..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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  • Emad Al-kasid, in gold and black, and his father Malik Al-kasid, in gray suit coat, participate in Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, at the Al-kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village of Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. ..When Malik Al-kasid's caravan approached, guns were fired to announce his family's arrival. The welcming party then, returns fire to welcome him. The two parties move toward each other dancing and shooting until they join in the middle where the Hawaies occurs. ..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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  • Members of the extended Al-kasid family participate in Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, 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. ..When Malik Al-kasid's caravan approached, guns were fired to announce his family's arrival. The welcming party then, returns fire to welcome him. The two parties move toward each other dancing and shooting until they join in the middle where the Hawaies occurs. ..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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  • Dressed traditional Arabic clothing, Malik Al-kasid has a cigarette while talking to youngest son Aladdin, 8, before his welcome home party in his home village Soug Al-Sheuk on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003.
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  • Emad Al-kasid, right, meets talks with Sheik Mortada Maash, left, chief editor of Annabaa Magazine, after touring the office of Annabaa Magazine, www.annabaa.org and www.iraqtoday.net at the Howza of Ayotollah Shirazi the Iraqi area of Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, July 16, 2003. Al-kasid has been meeting with businessmen and media people to learn about their ways as he plans to publish a magazine...Maash said that their publications are banned in Saudi Arabia and most arabic countries. "They talk about peace," Maash says, "The Shiite way, not the Wahabi way.'If you write anything about us, we believe in non-violence; this is what our magazines are about.".."You have to write these things and tell Amercia and Europe. America must stay with the Iraqi people. They must help us and fulfill their promises of bringing democracy and freedom to our future for America's future depends on these too."..His wife Zainab Sahb is the chief editor of Bushra Magazine for women...A Howza is like a seminary where men come to study. In this Shiite Howza, the philosophy of Ayotollah Shirazi is taught. As with all Shiite, advocacy of non-violence is the pre-eminent rule. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shiite settled in Syria after the Gulf War and their uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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  • Emad Al-kasid, with rifle in air, performs Hawaies, a traditional tribal Arabic dance, at the Al-kasid family's Istikbal in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003....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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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian. Her father Hussein Fakih is in the background.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • A mentally impaired man dressed in rags watches Emad Al-Kasid as he meets up with childhood friends in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003.  ..Emad was visiting the neighborhood he grew up in for the first time his family has been to the house since 1991. He took an indefinite amount of time from his satellite and Arab media company in Dearborn, MI, to come home with his family. On his own, and with his own money he's been meeting with Iraqi businessmen, religious leaders and politicians trying to find ways to bring business and democracy to Iraq. .."Can you imagine being away from you home and family for 13 years?" he asks. "I'm torn, do come here to stay and leave all I've built in the U.S.?"..He is hoping to teach members of his tribe, Al Hacham Al-kasid, and village that there is help available; they just have to ask for it. Another goal of this trip is to see for himself whether Iraq is safe enough for exiles to return and for foreign investment to come in...Since the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein in Shiite dominated Southern Iraq, people of this area have suffered greatly through his methods of disrupting daily life. For example, modernization came to a hault as money was diverted to Baath Party strongholds. Check points on on every other corner made it nearly impossible to go to work, the doctor, or visit family. Teachers made $5 U.S. per month and had to spend almost all of their salary for taxis in order to go to work...He tried to kill the people by cutting off the rivers that village survival depends on. Dams and canals dirverted the fresh water from flowing into the swamps by way of tributaries. In effect, without fresh water flowing in, the people started poisoning the water supply themselves by using it to wash and clean. Their primitive sewers still flow freely into the same waters that animals use and that feed their rice fields.
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  • A mentally impaired man dressed in rags watches Emad Al-Kasid as he meets up with childhood friends in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003.  ..Emad was visiting the neighborhood he grew up in for the first time his family has been to the house since 1991. He took an indefinite amount of time from his satellite and Arab media company in Dearborn, MI, to come home with his family. On his own, and with his own money he's been meeting with Iraqi businessmen, religious leaders and politicians trying to find ways to bring business and democracy to Iraq. .."Can you imagine being away from you home and family for 13 years?" he asks. "I'm torn, do come here to stay and leave all I've built in the U.S.?"..He is hoping to teach members of his tribe, Al Hacham Al-kasid, and village that there is help available; they just have to ask for it. Another goal of this trip is to see for himself whether Iraq is safe enough for exiles to return and for foreign investment to come in...Since the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein in Shiite dominated Southern Iraq, people of this area have suffered greatly through his methods of disrupting daily life. For example, modernization came to a hault as money was diverted to Baath Party strongholds. Check points on on every other corner made it nearly impossible to go to work, the doctor, or visit family. Teachers made $5 U.S. per month and had to spend almost all of their salary for taxis in order to go to work...He tried to kill the people by cutting off the rivers that village survival depends on. Dams and canals dirverted the fresh water from flowing into the swamps by way of tributaries. In effect, without fresh water flowing in, the people started poisoning the water supply themselves by using it to wash and clean. Their primitive sewers still flow freely into the same waters that animals use and that feed their rice fields.
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  • Aoum Hussein tries to explain what happened to her brother Aowth Abde Nassr in their home in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. ..Nassr was forced into the Iraqi armed services and went AWOL as many did during the 1980's and 90's. When he was caught, he was beaten so badly that he is now brain damaged, cannot speak, and suffers severe convulsions. His sister says he went mad after they beat him...Emad Al-Kasid was visiting the neighborhood he grew up in for the first time since his family fled in 1991. He met the woman while visiting his elementary school. (As we left, he handed her a stack of Iraqi Dinar hidden in a piece of paper. He said he had no idea how much he gave her. I think it had to be between 10,000 to 15,000 by counting out a comparable sized stack.)..He took an indefinate amount of time from his satellite and Arab media company in Dearborn, MI, to come home with his family. On his own, and with his own money he's been meeting with Iraqi businessmen, religious leaders and politicians trying to find ways to bring business and democracy to Iraq. .."Can you imagine being away from you home and family for 13 years?" he asks. "I'm torn, do come here to stay and leave all I've built in the U.S.?"..He is hoping to teach members of his tribe, Al Hacham Al-kasid, and village that there is help available; they just have to ask for it. Another goal of this trip is to see for himself whether Iraq is safe enough for exiles to return and for foreign investment to come in...Since the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein in Shiite dominated Southern Iraq, people of this area have suffered greatly through his methods of disrupting daily life. For example, modernization came to a hault as money was diverted to Baath Party strongholds. Check points on on every other corner made it nearly impossible to go to work, the doctor, or visit family.
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  • Aoum Hussein tries to explain what happened to her brother Aowth Abde Nassr in their home in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. ..Nassr was forced into the Iraqi armed services and went AWOL as many did during the 1980's and 90's. When he was caught, he was beaten so badly that he is now brain damaged, cannot speak, and suffers severe convulsions. His sister says he went mad after they beat him...Emad Al-Kasid was visiting the neighborhood he grew up in for the first time since his family fled in 1991. He met the woman while visiting his elementary school. (As we left, he handed her a stack of Iraqi Dinar hidden in a piece of paper. He said he had no idea how much he gave her. I think it had to be between 10,000 to 15,000 by counting out a comparable sized stack.)..He took an indefinate amount of time from his satellite and Arab media company in Dearborn, MI, to come home with his family. On his own, and with his own money he's been meeting with Iraqi businessmen, religious leaders and politicians trying to find ways to bring business and democracy to Iraq. .."Can you imagine being away from you home and family for 13 years?" he asks. "I'm torn, do come here to stay and leave all I've built in the U.S.?"..He is hoping to teach members of his tribe, Al Hacham Al-kasid, and village that there is help available; they just have to ask for it. Another goal of this trip is to see for himself whether Iraq is safe enough for exiles to return and for foreign investment to come in...Since the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein in Shiite dominated Southern Iraq, people of this area have suffered greatly through his methods of disrupting daily life. For example, modernization came to a hault as money was diverted to Baath Party strongholds. Check points on on every other corner made it nearly impossible to go to work, the doctor, or visit family.
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  • Aoum Hussein tries to explain what happened to her brother Aowth Abde Nassr in their home in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. ..Nassr was forced into the Iraqi armed services and went AWOL as many did during the 1980's and 90's. When he was caught, he was beaten so badly that he is now brain damaged, cannot speak, and suffers severe convulsions. His sister says he went mad after they beat him...Emad Al-Kasid was visiting the neighborhood he grew up in for the first time since his family fled in 1991. He met the woman while visiting his elementary school. (As we left, he handed her a stack of Iraqi Dinar hidden in a piece of paper. He said he had no idea how much he gave her. I think it had to be between 10,000 to 15,000 by counting out a comparable sized stack.)..He took an indefinate amount of time from his satellite and Arab media company in Dearborn, MI, to come home with his family. On his own, and with his own money he's been meeting with Iraqi businessmen, religious leaders and politicians trying to find ways to bring business and democracy to Iraq. .."Can you imagine being away from you home and family for 13 years?" he asks. "I'm torn, do come here to stay and leave all I've built in the U.S.?"..He is hoping to teach members of his tribe, Al Hacham Al-kasid, and village that there is help available; they just have to ask for it. Another goal of this trip is to see for himself whether Iraq is safe enough for exiles to return and for foreign investment to come in...Since the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein in Shiite dominated Southern Iraq, people of this area have suffered greatly through his methods of disrupting daily life. For example, modernization came to a hault as money was diverted to Baath Party strongholds. Check points on on every other corner made it nearly impossible to go to work, the doctor, or visit family. Teachers made $5 U.S. per month and had to spend alm
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  • Emad Al-Kasid, right, walks with Aoum Hussein on the way to her home in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. Emad was visiting the neighborhood he grew up in for the first time since 1991. ..He took an indefinate amount of time from his satellite and Arab media company in Dearborn, MI, to come home with his family. On his own, and with his own money he's been meeting with Iraqi businessmen, religious leaders and politicians trying to find ways to bring business and democracy to Iraq. .."Can you imagine being away from you home and family for 13 years?" he asks. "I'm torn, do come here to stay and leave all I've built in the U.S.?"..He is hoping to teach members of his tribe, Al Hacham Al-kasid, and village that there is help available; they just have to ask for it. Another goal of this trip is to see for himself whether Iraq is safe enough for exiles to return and for foreign investment to come in...Since the 1991 uprising against Saddam Hussein in Shiite dominated Southern Iraq, people of this area have suffered greatly through his methods of disrupting daily life. For example, modernization came to a hault as money was diverted to Baath Party strongholds. Check points on on every other corner made it nearly impossible to go to work, the doctor, or visit family. Teachers made $5 U.S. per month and had to spend almost all of their salary for taxis in order to go to work...He tried to kill the people by cutting off the rivers that village survival depends on. Dams and canals dirverted the fresh water from flowing into the swamps by way of tributaries. In effect, without fresh water flowing in, the people started poisoning the water supply themselves by using it to wash and clean. Their primitive sewers still flow freely into the same waters that animals use and that feed their rice fields.
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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  • Miss Michigan USA Rima Fakih of Dearborn won the Miss USA title Sunday. Lebanese American Rima Fakih, first made history when she became the first Arab American and Muslim American to win Miss Michigan USA. She is photographed at her home in  Dearborn, MI, Sunday, December 27, 2009. Fakih's family is Muslim but, also celebrates Christian holidays as her father's parents were Muslim and Christian.(Jeffrey Sauger)
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