With ash on their faces : Yezidi women and the Islamic State / Cathy Otten.
| Author/creator | Otten, Cathy author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | New York : OR Books, [2017] |
| Copyright Date | ©2017 |
| Description | 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | "You are under our protection" -- "We fought for six hours and nobody came" -- "They were killing our men in the valley" -- "There was almost no life but you could see people moving" -- "He told me about marriage, he told me about love" -- "We asked him to destroy her" -- "I would burn him alive" -- "All those ISIS motherfuckers are no good" -- "Bucca was their school" -- "No one can bring back the dead" -- "I was a hunter on Sinjar mountain" -- "If it wasn't for her, I couldn't have done it" -- "I see them in my dreams and they are selling me" -- "I belong to ISIS and my family are infidels". |
| Abstract | In the summer of 2014, in northern Iraq, more than one hundred thousand Yezidis were besieged on Sinjar Mountain alone, by ISIS forces. Otten, a journalist based in Iraqi Kurdistan for the past four years, covers the massacres of Yezidi men and the mass abduction of Yezidi women and children with extraordinary intensity. Today, over 3,000 Yezidi women and girls remain in the Caliphate where they are bought and sold, and passed between fighters as chattel. Otten bases her book on interviews with survivors, as well as those who smuggled them to safety. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-237). |
| ISBN | 9781944869458 |
| ISBN | 194486945X |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | HV6433 .I722 I8564 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |