Children gather around Minaret Park's main attraction — a pool filled with giant, inflated floating balls with children inside, running in place as if on a hamster wheel. (Stephen Kurczy/GlobalPost)
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Painted bomb barriers surround a government building at the base of a hill upon which sits the Erbil citadel, which is 8,000 years old according to UNESCO. (Stephen Kurczy/GlobalPost)
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New fountain installations in the heart of Erbil. (Stephen Kurczy/GlobalPost)
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A mosaic by Hawkar Rskin, director of Shanidar Gallery in Erbil. (Stephen Kurczy/GlobalPost)
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For Eid, little girls dressed up in new frocks while boys donned child-size silk suits. (Stephen Kurczy/GlobalPost)
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Among the thousands of people who gathered in Minaret Park during Eid, unveiled women promenaded holding sticks of cotton candy in one hand and their husband’s hand in the other. (Stephen Kurczy/GlobalPost)
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At Minaret Park, bulbous, bright roses line manicured paths through pristine gardens. (Stephen Kurczy/GlobalPost)
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Preparing the Eid feast in a typical family home in Erbil, Iraq’s third-largest city after Baghdad and Mosul. (Stephen Kurczy/GlobalPost)
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A statue of a well-known Erbil writer, Gewargis Warda Arbillaya. (Stephen Kurczy/GlobalPost)
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