[Farmers preparing grain by hand, Aktau, USSR]

[Farmers preparing grain by hand, Aktau, USSR]

In a makeshift court in Zakho, two boys plead their case before a judge (holding the knife). Such courts were created after the Gulf War of 1991, which was part of the Kurds' reclaiming authority over northern Iraq.

[Family eating a meal inside their home, Aktau, USSR]

[Farmers dancing and playing music in a clubhouse on a collective farm, Aktau, USSR]

[Young farmers preforming a play for the collective, Aktau, USSR]

[Farmers harvesting and preparing grain, Aktau, USSR]

The Yemesli refugee camp in Iraq was set up for displaced Iraqi Kurds after the Gulf War of 1991. The camp, which does not exist anymore, was once home to 60,000 Kurdish refugees for months after the war.