An exquisite book of a photographic essay on Arbaeen of Imam Husayn by Ayaz Ali and Sarah Bokhari which captures the activity the culture and the glory of pilgrimage – deserves to be widely disseminated!
Arbaeen: A Lens into a Sacred Journey documents this event, intertwined with poetic expression of the emotions a Zaa’ir may feel and observe throughout the various stages of visitation.
It follows the annual journey undertaken by millions of people as they walk eighty-kilometre from Najaf to Karbala and the final culmination of forty days of mourning.
The aspiration of documenting this journey is to enable further coverage of the annual phenomenon. Due to the scarcity of current reporting, this book is published with the hope that more photographers, journalists and authors will share their work and, in particular, provide more detailed accounts highlighting the experiences of the people of Iraq.