An Iraqi vendor waits for customers outside his shop decorated with pictures of Imam Hussein, revered by Shiite Muslims, in Baghdad’s Karrada district, Feb. 4, 2013.
The Haidar Khaneh mosque on Baghdad’s Al-Rashid Street, Feb. 3, 2013.
An Iraqi man rides a horse-pulled cart loaded with boxes on Al-Rashid Street in Baghdad, Feb.2, 2013.
Iraqi men sit at a barber shop on Shorja Street in Baghdad, Feb. 2, 2013.
Iraqis sit in Shah Bandar cafe, one of the oldest cafes in Baghdad, located on Al-Mutanabi Street, Feb. 3, 2013.
An exercise machine is strapped on top of a car on Al-Rashid Street in Baghdad, Feb. 2, 2013.
An Iraqi flag is reflected on a 1958 Chrysler during the Friday motor show in Baghdad’s district of Al-Jadriya, Feb. 8, 2013.
Iraqi youth stand next to a Chevrolet Corvette from the 1970s during the Friday motor show in the Baghdad’s district of Al-Jadriya, Feb. 8, 2013.
An Iraqi man rides a horse-pulled cart loaded with boxes on Al-Rashid Street in Baghdad, Feb.2, 2013.
An Iraqi man throws a garbage bag, Feb. 3, 2013, near the ruins of the Ottoman-era Serail (government building) that was looted and burnt during the U.S. invasion of Baghdad.
An Iraqi woman walks past concrete barriers in Baghdad, Feb. 7, 2013.
A poster of radical Iraqi Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad’s Sadr City, Feb. 5, 2013.
An Iraqi man walks past a building in Baghdad’s Karrada district, Feb. 5, 2013.
Entangled electricity wires on Al-Rashid Street in Baghdad, Feb. 2, 2013.
Iraqi flags hang over tombstones at the Sunni Martyrs’ cemetery of Baghad’s Al-Adhamiyah district, Feb. 5, 2013.
Iraqi street vendors grill cut-open carp used in masgoof, Iraq’s signature dish, in Baghdad’s Karrada Street, Feb. 7, 2013.















