1.   As Zhang Youlian wept in the dirt courtyard surrounded by towering peaks, her tears spoke to her year of calamities.

2.   Outside the house, her children played in a dirt courtyard.

3.   The boys could be lashed by the religious police if their turbans fell off while they played amid the dirt courtyards of the complex.

4.   The cement window grating is shaped in Stars of David, as is the railing on the balcony over the bare dirt interior courtyard.

5.   Through a dirt courtyard that is home to a lone chicken is the tin-roofed wooden shack of Helena Monteiro.

6.   Her body lay wrapped in a white shroud in the dirt courtyard.