lynsey addario, photographer

Middle East: Iraq War

Shayma Hamid, center, 21, reads a passage in the Koran traditionally read by brides before their weddings while being greeted and cheered by relatives at Sahyma's home during her wedding day, 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, center, 21, reads a passage in the Koran traditionally read by brides before their weddings while being greeted and cheered by relatives at Sahyma's home during her wedding day, 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.