Back in business: River cruise weddings return to war-torn Iraq’s Basra
To the sound of drums and trumpets, an Iraqi groom and his bride this week stepped hand-in-hand onto a speed boat on the river in Basra to celebrate. Their wedding on Monday was the first such celebration to be held on the Shatt al-Arab waterway running through the southern city since the 1980s. Aboard the […]To the sound of drums and trumpets, an Iraqi groom and his bride this week stepped hand-in-hand onto a speed boat on the river in Basra to celebrate.
Their wedding on Monday was the first such celebration to be held on the Shatt al-Arab waterway running through the southern city since the 1980s.
Aboard the small speed boat decorated with tinsel and balloons, laborer Hussein Ali Jabbar and his wife donned captain hats and posed for the camera.
