Jehad Nga, a photographer working for The New York Times in Iraq, sought to capture the flow of hundreds of thousands of pilgrims some waving colorful banners, others clad in traditional black – streaming toward Karbala for Arbaeen. They were marching to the Shiite holy city to commemorate the martyrdom in A.D. 680 of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad and one of the most revered early figures in Shiite Islam.
book: Photographers Journal
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