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Djemaa Daoudi, 90, a berber woman from the Chaouia region, who has facial tattoos, sits outside her house in Inoughissen in the Aures Mountain near the eastern city of Batna, Algeria October 8, 2015. Daoudi was forced to have a tattoo by her husband just after their wedding when she was 15 years old because it was a fashion. A local Berber woman tattooed her. Some believers have told these Muslim women that by allowing the tattoos they committed a sin according to Islam. Today Daoudi regrets being tattooed. "Even if it was not my decision at the time to be tattooed, to ask forgiveness from God, I've given everything I consider precious, like my silver jewellery and my wool, as alms", Djemaa said. (Photo by Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)
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