From a Freudian perspective, face is the ultimate mask that conceals the horror of the Neighbor-Thing: face is what makes the Neighbor le semblable, a fellow-man with whom we can identify and empathize. (via Slavoj Žižek, The Two Types of the Fear of the Burka)

Zagros Mountains, northern Iraq, 1979

Kurdish girl in northern Iraq, using automatic gun, to protect her family from Iraqi troops.

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