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Arabs in a village south of Baghdad, Iraq, who left their villages in the north as Kurds returned home. The Arabs had been moved into the Kurdish villages as part of government's Arabization of the Kurdish areas.

Tabarek is a Palestinian-Iraqi whose family was forced from their homes in Baghdad, because of rising rents and intimidation, have moved into tents at the Haifa sports complex in Baghdad, a tent camp with a health clinic, weight room, clean water, and security.

Arabs in a village south of Baghdad, Iraq, who left their villages in the north as Kurds returned home. The Arabs had been moved into the Kurdish villages as part of government's Arabization of the Kurdish areas.

A Palestinian-Iraqi girl shows a machine gun bullet the children have removed from the live ammunition that is scattered all over their home in the former School for the Blind in Baghdad, Iraq.

A Palestinian-Iraqi boy who was wounded by unexploded ordinance while playing football in a bombed military base that borders his home in the former School for the Blind in Baghdad, Iraq. Although school is only one kilometer away, his parents have not taken him to school in weeks, saying they cannot get him there.

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Ahmed Feris Hussein, a Palestinian living in Iraq, and a former receptionist at the Haifa sports complex in Baghdad. He lives in the complex, cooking in a stairwell.

Jawad Amer Said Al-Shemary (49) and his mother, Azeeza Masikh Dehash (74), in their house in Shammar village, near Numaniya, Iraq. Al-Shemary hid for 22 years in a false wall in the house to avoid arrest and execution by Saddam Hussein's regime. He had joined the Shia political party "Dawa" in 1981, and after two friends were arrested and killed, he went into hiding. PHOTO BY DAVID I. GROSS/JUNE 4, 2003

Jawad Amer Said Al-Shemary (49) outside his house in Shammar village, near Numaniya, Iraq. Al-Shemary hid for 22 years in a false wall in the house to avoid arrest and execution by Saddam Hussein's regime. He had joined the Shia political party "Dawa" in 1981, and after two friends were arrested and killed, he went into hiding. PHOTO BY DAVID I. GROSS/JUNE 4, 2003

A Palestinian-Iraqi woman talks about living in squalor in the Palestinian settlement in the former School for the Blind in Baghdad, Iraq, but smiles throughout.