
A Shiite worshipper in Karbala, Iraq screams as if in a trance while covered in blood after having cut his own scalp with a knife. He and hundreds of thousands of others are taking part in the commemoration of the assassination of the founder of the Shiite religion, Al-Hussein, who was killed in the seventh century in the city of Karbala.
(Essdras Suarez/Globe Staff )

