Sarina second from left and Marwa third from left with ladies in the Northern Iraq Community Center salon. As they continue to live in challenging accommodations more than four years after fleeing for their lives, many are finding special solace at a salon within the community center. She explains that for a traditional wedding the entire community is invited to partake in a day filled with dancing, eating, and celebrating. For Iraqi women in particular, weddings mean going on a big family trip to the salon to have their hair and makeup done properly. Salons are an important part of Iraqi culture where women can relax and spend hours helping one another feel beautiful in a space that is just for them. Displaced women find special solace in the salon.

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Iraq has seen decades of conflict, from war with Iran in the s to the Gulf War, the U. The years of turmoil have widowed women and orphaned children, further worsening the conditions in which they live. But this disturbing trend is just one consequence of the devastation of postwar Iraq.

BAGHDAD — Hollow-cheeked and shivering slightly in jeans he had outgrown, Abdullah stood in an unfinished parking garage, transfixed in front of a mural whose meaning he was eager to decode for a visitor. Drawn in charcoal in a socialist realist style, the mural, more than 12 feet long, showed a group of men walking forward and carrying their fallen friends in their arms. The men depicted were unmistakably Everyman laborers, with rough clothes and strained faces.