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  • The kitchen area in Hassan Atshan Nassar's one-room home attached to the back of an elementary school in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. To support his family of seven, he is a security guard at the school and earns $60 USD/month. Before Saddam Hussein was toppled, he earned about $10/month...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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  • Relatives of the Al-Kasid family ride in a caravan of vehicles on the way to Al-kasid's Istikbal, or homecoming, in his home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. Al-kasid is seated at left and the this picture was taken in the village center of Suq ash Shuyukh. 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's truck leads a caravan of relatives as many villagers turned out to welcome him home on the way to Al-kasid's Istikbal, or homecoming, in his home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. Al-kasid is seated at left and the this picture was taken in the village center of Suq ash Shuyukh. 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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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage as people walk in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003.  ..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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  • Relatives of the Al-Kasid family ride in a caravan of vehicles on the way to Al-kasid's Istikbal, or homecoming, in his home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. Al-kasid is seated at left and the this picture was taken in the village center of Suq ash Shuyukh. 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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  • A young girl spies the photographer while she was playing with friends in a pile of garbage in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003.  ..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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  • Wedding dress shop in Suq ash Shuyukh, Iraq.
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  • Young men and boys from the village prepare coffee and tea in a motheff, a traditional long house, during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, July 30, 2003. ..The boys work throughout the 3 day celebration fetching water, serving food, cleaning, etc., which teaches them respect for their elders. In return, they are fed better than normal and get to be a part of the action as this was a huge event in the village...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. After their participation in the 1991 uprising, Saddam Hussein's forces burned the Al-Kasid family Motheff, along with their cars, to the ground.
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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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  • " I thought this was the end of my life," recalls Naddwa Hashem, 38, as she shows the injuries inflicted to her hands during an attack by Iraqi forces in 1991 on the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. "Right away, I knew we had no money for surgery, Iraq was in a war and my company (she's an English teacher) couldn't pay for it. Many people have died from the same thing. I thought it was the end."..Opposition forces from Nasiriyah, a Shiite stronghold, held off Iraqi forces for 21 days. When it became apparent that U.S. forces were not going to help fight the Iraqi forces, Saddam ordered large numbers of troops to crush the uprising. An Iraqi bomb exploded in Hashem's house, her clothes caught on fire and her hands were horribly burned...In 1991, she had two surgeries but, was unable to complete her treatment because she and her husband Hussein Al-Banaa couldn't afford it after already spending 1 Million Iraqi Dinar...Hussein Al-Banaa is Malik Al-kasid's brother-in-law. His family now lives in the house Al-kasid's family fled after the Gulf War and their part in the uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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  • Malik Al-kasid's truck leads a caravan of relatives as many villagers turned out to welcome him home on the way to Al-kasid's Istikbal, or homecoming, in his home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. Al-kasid is seated at left and the this picture was taken in the village center of Suq ash Shuyukh. 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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  • Guests including tribal chiefs and members of the extended Al-kasid family  are served cigarettes as they gather 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. The men gather in Motheff, traditional long houses made of date tree wood, branches and reeds that last about six years before a new one must be built.
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  • The kitchen area in Hassan Atshan Nassar's one-room home attached to the back of an elementary school in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. To support his family of seven, he is a security guard at the school and earns $60 USD/month. Before Saddam Hussein was toppled, he earned about $10/month...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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  • 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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  • " I thought this was the end of my life," recalls Naddwa Hashem, 38, as she shows the injuries inflicted to her hands during an attack by Iraqi forces in 1991 on the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. "Right away, I knew we had no money for surgery, Iraq was in a war and my company (she's an English teacher) couldn't pay for it. Many people have died from the same thing. I thought it was the end."..Opposition forces from Nasiriyah, a Shiite stronghold, held off Iraqi forces for 21 days. When it became apparent that U.S. forces were not going to help fight the Iraqi forces, Saddam ordered large numbers of troops to crush the uprising. An Iraqi bomb exploded in Hashem's house, her clothes caught on fire and her hands were horribly burned...In 1991, she had two surgeries but, was unable to complete her treatment because she and her husband Hussein Al-Banaa couldn't afford it after already spending 1 Million Iraqi Dinar...Hussein Al-Banaa is Malik Al-kasid's brother-in-law. His family now lives in the house Al-kasid's family fled after the Gulf War and their part in the uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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  • Women make traditional Iraqi flat bread during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Thursday, July 31, 2003...The women spend most of their time making dough, baking bread, milking cows, taking care of children, preparing food, etc. as the men gather out front of the compound. 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.
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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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  • Hassan Atshan Nassar poses with his family in their one-room home attached to the back of an elementary school in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. He is a security guard at the school and earns $60 USD/month. Before Saddam Hussein was toppled, he earned about $10/month...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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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage as children play in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003.  ..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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  • Women and young girls make traditional Iraqi flat bread during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003...The women spend most of their time making dough, baking bread, milking cows, taking care of children, preparing food, etc. as the men gather out front of the compound. 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.
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  • Malik Al-kasid's truck leads a caravan of relatives as many villagers turned out to welcome him home on the way to Al-kasid's Istikbal, or homecoming, in his home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. Al-kasid is seated at left and the this picture was taken in the village center of Suq ash Shuyukh. 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 embraces childhood friend Jassem Mohammad Jassem in the neighborhood he grew up in on August 3, 2003. His family recently returned to their home village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, after fleeing for their lives for their part in the Southern uprising in 1991. After 3 years in a refugee camp in Rafha, Saudi Arabia, they settled in Dearborn, MI. This is the first time the family has been home in 13 years.
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  • A woman fans the flames in an oven to make traditional Iraqi flat bread during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, July 31, 2003...The women spend most of their time making dough, baking bread, milking cows, taking care of children, preparing food, etc. as the men gather out front of the compound. 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.
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  • Women remove the hair of a lamb's head as they prepare to serve it on a platter with rice during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003. It is a sign of respect to serve the platter of boiled lamb with the head facing the guest. Usually a platter with a head on it is placed in front of chiefs and other important people...The women spend most of their time making dough, baking bread, milking cows, taking care of children, preparing food, etc. as the men gather out front of the compound. 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.
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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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  • 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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  • Relatives of the Al-Kasid family ride in a caravan of vehicles on the way to Al-kasid's Istikbal, or homecoming, in his home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. Al-kasid is seated at left and the this picture was taken in the village center of Suq ash Shuyukh. 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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  • 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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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage as children play in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003.  ..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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  • Kawther Al-Kasid, center, greets a friend 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 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 looks over the remains of his aunt's home in his home village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. The home was the last Emad stayed in before fleeing Iraq in 1991...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. Emad has been planning the trip over the last year.
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  • "Welcome, welcome, this the day you return," sing women belonging to Al Hacham tribe and the Al-kasid family during 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...The women spend most of their time making dough, baking bread, milking cows, taking care of children, preparing food, etc. as the men gather outside the family complex...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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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage as children play in the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq,
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  • " I thought this was the end of my life," recalls Naddwa Hashem, 38, as she shows the injuries inflicted to her hands during an attack by Iraqi forces in 1991 on the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. "Right away, I knew we had no money for surgery, Iraq was in a war and my company (she's an English teacher) couldn't pay for it. Many people have died from the same thing. I thought it was the end."..Opposition forces from Nasiriyah, a Shiite stronghold, held off Iraqi forces for 21 days. When it became apparent that U.S. forces were not going to help fight the Iraqi forces, Saddam ordered large numbers of troops to crush the uprising. An Iraqi bomb exploded in Hashem's house, her clothes caught on fire and her hands were horribly burned...In 1991, she had two surgeries but, was unable to complete her treatment because she and her husband Hussein Al-Banaa couldn't afford it after already spending 1 Million Iraqi Dinar...Hussein Al-Banaa is Malik Al-kasid's brother-in-law. His family now lives in the house Al-kasid's family fled after the Gulf War and their part in the uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage as people walk in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003.  ..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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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage as children play in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003.  ..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.
    Iraqi-Exiles239.jpg
  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage as children play in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003.  ..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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • " I thought this was the end of my life," recalls Naddwa Hashem, 38, as she shows the injuries inflicted to her hands during an attack by Iraqi forces in 1991 on the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. "Right away, I knew we had no money for surgery, Iraq was in a war and my company (she's an English teacher) couldn't pay for it. Many people have died from the same thing. I thought it was the end."..Opposition forces from Nasiriyah, a Shiite stronghold, held off Iraqi forces for 21 days. When it became apparent that U.S. forces were not going to help fight the Iraqi forces, Saddam ordered large numbers of troops to crush the uprising. An Iraqi bomb exploded in Hashem's house, her clothes caught on fire and her hands were horribly burned...In 1991, she had two surgeries but, was unable to complete her treatment because she and her husband Hussein Al-Banaa couldn't afford it after already spending 1 Million Iraqi Dinar...Hussein Al-Banaa is Malik Al-kasid's brother-in-law. His family now lives in the house Al-kasid's family fled after the Gulf War and their part in the uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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  • " I thought this was the end of my life," recalls Naddwa Hashem, 38, as she shows the injuries inflicted to her hands during an attack by Iraqi forces in 1991 on the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. "Right away, I knew we had no money for surgery, Iraq was in a war and my company (she's an English teacher) couldn't pay for it. Many people have died from the same thing. I thought it was the end."..Opposition forces from Nasiriyah, a Shiite stronghold, held off Iraqi forces for 21 days. When it became apparent that U.S. forces were not going to help fight the Iraqi forces, Saddam ordered large numbers of troops to crush the uprising. An Iraqi bomb exploded in Hashem's house, her clothes caught on fire and her hands were horribly burned...In 1991, she had two surgeries but, was unable to complete her treatment because she and her husband Hussein Al-Banaa couldn't afford it after already spending 1 Million Iraqi Dinar...Hussein Al-Banaa is Malik Al-kasid's brother-in-law. His family now lives in the house Al-kasid's family fled after the Gulf War and their part in the uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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  • Women make traditional Iraqi flat bread during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Thursday, July 31, 2003...The women spend most of their time making dough, baking bread, milking cows, taking care of children, preparing food, etc. as the men gather out front of the compound. 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.
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  • Members of the Al Hacham Tribe fire a salute in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003. The men were paying respects to a member of another tribe who was electrocuted Tuesday night. The man was a guest at the Istikbal, or homecoming celebration, for Malik Al-kasid's family Tuesday. The Al-kasid family belongs to the Al Hacham Tribe; Al Hacham Al-kasid...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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  • Children play 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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  • Young men and boys from the village serve coffee and tea in a motheff, a traditional long house, during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, July 30, 2003. ..The boys work throughout the 3 day celebration fetching water, serving food, cleaning, etc., which teaches them respect for their elders. In return, they are fed better than normal and get to be a part of the action as this was a huge event in the village...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. After their participation in the 1991 uprising, Saddam Hussein's forces burned the Al-Kasid family Motheff, along with their cars, to the ground.
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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage as children play in garbage-riddled streets in the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq,
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  • A young girl spies the photographer while she was playing with friends in a pile of garbage in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003.  ..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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  • 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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  • Children play 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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  • 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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  • "Help me, help you," says Emad Al-Kasid as he talks to the young men and boys of his 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. ..Emad, 29, worked and scavenged for food by day and fought Saddam Hussein's forces by night during the 1991 uprising in the Shiite dominated Southern Iraq. In his village, he fiercely recruited other young men telling them they had to fight for their future. Now that he has been educated in the U.S., he wants to teach the youth of his village that there is hope for their future and their children's future but, they must tell people that they need help in order to get it.
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  • Emad Al-Kasid fires a celebratory round into the air during 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. ..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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  • 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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  • Malik Al-kasid, right, looks over the bedroom in the house he fled with his family during the 1991 uprising in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. After he and his family of 7 fled, his brother-in-law took over the house and lives there currently. His son Hussein, 15, is at left. Woman is unidentified relative. This was the first time his family has been to the house since 1991...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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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003.  ..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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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage as children play in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003.  ..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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  • Emad Al-kasid looks over the remains of his aunt's home in his home village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. The home was the last Emad stayed in before fleeing Iraq in 1991...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. Emad has been planning the trip over the last year.
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  • Children play in a pile of garbage in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003.  ..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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  • The kitchen area in Hassan Atshan Nassar's one-room home attached to the back of an elementary school in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. To support his family of seven, he is a security guard at the school and earns $60 USD/month. Before Saddam Hussein was toppled, he earned about $10/month...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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  • Emad Al-Kasid embraces childhood friend Jassem Mohammad Jassem in the neighborhood he grew up in on August 3, 2003. His family recently returned to their home village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, after fleeing for their lives for their part in the Southern uprising in 1991. After 3 years in a refugee camp in Rafha, Saudi Arabia, they settled in Dearborn, MI. This is the first time the family has been home in 13 years.
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  • " I thought this was the end of my life," recalls Naddwa Hashem, 38, as she shows the injuries inflicted to her hands during an attack by Iraqi forces in 1991 on the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. "Right away, I knew we had no money for surgery, Iraq was in a war and my company (she's an English teacher) couldn't pay for it. Many people have died from the same thing. I thought it was the end."..Opposition forces from Nasiriyah, a Shiite stronghold, held off Iraqi forces for 21 days. When it became apparent that U.S. forces were not going to help fight the Iraqi forces, Saddam ordered large numbers of troops to crush the uprising. An Iraqi bomb exploded in Hashem's house, her clothes caught on fire and her hands were horribly burned...In 1991, she had two surgeries but, was unable to complete her treatment because she and her husband Hussein Al-Banaa couldn't afford it after already spending 1 Million Iraqi Dinar...Hussein Al-Banaa is Malik Al-kasid's brother-in-law. His family now lives in the house Al-kasid's family fled after the Gulf War and their part in the uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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  • Women make traditional Iraqi flat bread during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Thursday, July 31, 2003...The women spend most of their time making dough, baking bread, milking cows, taking care of children, preparing food, etc. as the men gather out front of the compound. 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.
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  • Emad Al-Kasid, at right with gun in his hand, and members of the Al Hacham Al-Kasid Tribe, red flag, merge with a neighboring tribe in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003. The men were paying respects to a member of another tribe who was electrocuted Tuesday night. The man was a guest at the Istikbal, or homecoming celebration, for Malik Al-Kasid's family Tuesday. This was the first time Emad went to a tribal function as an official representative of the tribal council...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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  • A young boy wets the ground near the motheff's, traditional long houses, so the sand doesn't blow on the guests during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 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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  • Ali Al-kasid, a member of Al Hacham Al-kasid Tribe picks dates at the family's small farm in the village of Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003.
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  • Children play in a pile of garbage in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003.  ..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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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage unnoticed as members of the Al-kasid family gather in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003.  ..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 woman makes traditional Iraqi flat bread during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003...The women spend most of their time making dough, baking bread, milking cows, taking care of children, preparing food, etc. as the men gather out front of the compound. 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.
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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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  • The kitchen area in Hassan Atshan Nassar's one-room home attached to the back of an elementary school in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. To support his family of seven, he is a security guard at the school and earns $60 USD/month. Before Saddam Hussein was toppled, he earned about $10/month...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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  • " I thought this was the end of my life," recalls Naddwa Hashem, 38, as she shows the injuries inflicted to her hands during an attack by Iraqi forces in 1991 on the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. "Right away, I knew we had no money for surgery, Iraq was in a war and my company (she's an English teacher) couldn't pay for it. Many people have died from the same thing. I thought it was the end."..Opposition forces from Nasiriyah, a Shiite stronghold, held off Iraqi forces for 21 days. When it became apparent that U.S. forces were not going to help fight the Iraqi forces, Saddam ordered large numbers of troops to crush the uprising. An Iraqi bomb exploded in Hashem's house, her clothes caught on fire and her hands were horribly burned...In 1991, she had two surgeries but, was unable to complete her treatment because she and her husband Hussein Al-Banaa couldn't afford it after already spending 1 Million Iraqi Dinar...Hussein Al-Banaa is Malik Al-kasid's brother-in-law. His family now lives in the house Al-kasid's family fled after the Gulf War and their part in the uprising against Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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  • Strong winds kick up the sand during the Al-kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003. ..Young men and boys work throughout the 3 day celebration fetching water, serving food, cleaning, etc., which teaches them respect for their elders. In return, they are fed better than normal and get to be a part of the action as this was a huge event in the village. ..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...After the uprising in the Shiite dominated South, Saddam Hussein tried to kill the people by cutting off the rivers that village survival depends on. Dams and canals diverted 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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  • Kawther Al-Kasid, left, greets a friend 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 Rafa, Saudi Arabia and finally settled in Dearborn, MI. The family hasn't been home to Iraq in 13 years.
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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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  • 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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  • Emad Al-Kasid dances to a chorus of "Welcome, welcome, this the day you return," sing women belonging to Al Hacham tribe and the Al-kasid family during 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...The women spend most of their time making dough, baking bread, milking cows, taking care of children, preparing food, etc. as the men gather outside the family complex...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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Hassan Atshan Nassar poses with his family in their one-room home attached to the back of an elementary school in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. He is a security guard at the school and earns $60 USD/month. Before Saddam Hussein was toppled, he earned about $10/month...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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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage as children play in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003.  ..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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  • 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 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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  • "Welcome, welcome, this the day you return," sing women belonging to Al Hacham tribe and the Al-kasid family during 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...The women spend most of their time making dough, baking bread, milking cows, taking care of children, preparing food, etc. as the men gather outside the family complex...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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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage as people walk in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003.  ..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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  • Kawther Al-Kasid, center, greets a friend 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 Rafa, Saudi Arabia and finally settled in Dearborn, MI. The family hasn't been home to Iraq in 13 years.
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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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  • Emad Al-kasid looks over the remains of his aunt's home in his home village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Tuesday, July 29, 2003. The home was the last Emad stayed in before fleeing Iraq in 1991...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. Emad has been planning the trip over the last year.
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  • Hassan Atshan Nassar poses with his family in their one-room home attached to the back of an elementary school in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003. He is a security guard at the school and earns $60 USD/month. Before Saddam Hussein was toppled, he earned about $10/month...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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  • Members of the Al Hacham Al-Kasid Tribe gather around their tribal flag in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003. The men were on their way to pay respects to a member of another tribe who was electrocuted Tuesday night. That man was a guest at the Istikbal, or homecoming celebration, for Malik Al-Kasid's family Tuesday. ..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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  • Young men and boys from the village serve coffee and tea in a motheff, a traditional long house, during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, July 30, 2003. ..The boys work throughout the 3 day celebration fetching water, serving food, cleaning, etc., which teaches them respect for their elders. In return, they are fed better than normal and get to be a part of the action as this was a huge event in the village...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. After their participation in the 1991 uprising, Saddam Hussein's forces burned the Al-Kasid family Motheff, along with their cars, to the ground.
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  • A young boy wets the ground near the motheff's, traditional long houses, so the sand doesn't blow on the guests during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 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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  • Ali Al-kasid, a member of Al Hacham Al-kasid Tribe picks dates as his cousin Emad Al-Kasid runs through the swamp at the family's small farm in the village of 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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  • Girls from the Al-Kasid family during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, in the village of Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq. Women and children from the family stay inside the compound while the men entertain out front.
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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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  • Crude gutters flow with raw sewage unnoticed as members of the Al-kasid family gather in the modernized center of the village Suq ash Shuyukh on the outskirts of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday, August 3, 2003.  ..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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  • Members of the Al Hacham Al-Kasid Tribe gather around their tribal flag in their home village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003. The men were on their way to pay respects to a member of another tribe who was electrocuted Tuesday night. That man was a guest at the Istikbal, or homecoming celebration, for Malik Al-Kasid's family Tuesday. ..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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  • Women remove the hair of a lamb's head as they prepare to serve it on a platter with rice during the Al-Kasid family's Istikbal, or homecoming, village Suq ash Shuyukh, about 20 miles southeast of Nasiriyah, Iraq, Wednesday, July 30, 2003. It is a sign of respect to serve the platter of boiled lamb with the head facing the guest. Usually a platter with a head on it is placed in front of chiefs and other important people...The women spend most of their time making dough, baking bread, milking cows, taking care of children, preparing food, etc. as the men gather out front of the compound. 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.
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