lynsey addario, photographer

Middle East: Iraq War

Shayma Hamid, center, 21, and Ali Dakhil, left, 26, are greeted and cheered by relatives at Sahyma's home the night before their wedding day, February 19, 2004, in Baghdad, Iraq. With the start of Muharram, a muslim holiday which traditionally forbids weddings for one month, hundreds of Iraqis scrambled last week to get married.
Baghdad, Iraq
Shayma Hamid, center, 21, and Ali Dakhil, left, 26, are greeted and cheered by relatives at Sahyma's home the night before their wedding day, February 19, 2004, in Baghdad, Iraq. With the start of Muharram, a muslim holiday which traditionally forbids weddings for one month, hundreds of Iraqis scrambled last week to get married.