lynsey addario, photographer

Middle East: Iraq War

Shayma Hamid, 21, is led out of her bedroom on her wedding day before her fiance comes to pick her up, February 20, 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, 21, is led out of her bedroom on her wedding day before her fiance comes to pick her up, February 20, 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.