An Offer She Wouldn't Refuse.

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  • Source:
    National Geographic. Jun2004, Vol. 205 Issue 6, p32-33. 2p. 3 Color Photographs.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      POVERTY; SHIITES; MARTYRS; COOKING
    • Subject Terms:
      BAGHDAD (Iraq); IRAQReport Available
    • Abstract:
      Girlish days of playing at home white her mother and sister bake bread will soon end when 14-year-old Noel Abdel Wahid leaves home to marry a cousin — and thus aid her family's efforts to escape poverty. The Wahid family lives in a two-room house without plumbing in Sadr City, Baghdad's, Iraq huge Shiite slum. According to the father, who holds down two jobs, the family hasn't been able to afford meat for five years. Because of blackouts, they eat by oil lamp on many nights, under pictures of Shiite martyrs.