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Sylwia Kapuscinski The Detroit Free Press
"Iraq's Mandeans"


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"Marriage Ceremony" Emad Moneam of Baghdad, 38, and his bride Eyman Kareem of Baghdad, 30, react as their heads are hit together three times during their marriage ceremony at Headquarters for Sabaean Mandean Religion in Iraq and the World in Baghdad, Iraq, on Sunday, April 4, 2004. Mandeans are only allowed to marry other Mandeans in order to preserve pure bloodlines.
 

 

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