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Alexandra Boulat

A young Berber boy in a rural village of Morocco reads a piece of paper with Arabic writing on it. A story in the January 2005 issue documented the lives and culture of the Berbers, a people group indigenous to northern Africa.

The June 2003 issue featured a diary of photographer Alexandra Boulat's experiences in Baghdad in March of the same year, just days before the U.S. began dropping bombs. In this photo, schoolboys armed with fake automatic rifles wait to greet foreign peace activists who had come to Baghdad to act as human shields.

A Berber groom kisses his bride at a mass wedding in Taarart, Morocco. Berbers living in rural areas of Morocco carry on cultural traditions that have lasted at least 5,000 years.

A woman dances at a Berber wedding celebration in Taarart, Morocco. Berbers are an ethnic group native to northern Africa, and most Moroccans claim Berber descent—even though the government systematically denies their identity.

Just weeks before the United States began bombing Iraq in 2003, this wedding procession wound through the streets of Baghdad, blasting celebratory music.

A barbershop in Baghdad, Iraq, bears the scars of bombing. This photo appeared in the September 2003 issue, just six months after the United States invaded Iraq.