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Published: 01 November 2019
Figure 3. Yazidi women for sale. © European Union 2016—European Parliament.
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 408–413.
Published: 01 November 2022
... and present violence. She honors Mayan women’s organizing and voicing of their experiences despite the danger. Grant’s chapter presents another example of violence against women as a weapon to obliterate a group, similar to the treatment of Yazidi women by ISIS. Her work constitutes a strong condemnation...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 261–285.
Published: 01 November 2019
...Figure 3. Yazidi women for sale. © European Union 2016—European Parliament. ...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 430–432.
Published: 01 November 2019
... with only each other to hang onto. While closer to earth, painted at the floor of the frame, sit three souls who look inward. And, they’re always all of us from “Her Story Is.” Sometimes I see Lillie at the center, weeping for Yazidi women soldiers—Nadia and Dina around her. Sometimes it’s...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 301–302.
Published: 01 November 2016
... century. The cover of this issue is by Khaled Akil, a Syrian art photographer from Aleppo now living in Istanbul. Third Space features five works from his Woman Between . . . series that he dedicates to Yazidi women, whom Islamic State militiamen abducted, raped, and sold into sexual captivity...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (1): 124–125.
Published: 01 March 2015
..., and sexually exploited. Many are even used as human shields. War has obstructed the arrival of urgent relief aid and increased the likelihood that already vulnerable groups will face disaster and famine and will leave school, as the displaced Yazidis on Mount Sinjar have done. War has disrupted government...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2019) 15 (3): 423–429.
Published: 01 November 2019
... and suffering. Listening to stories of domestic violence, sexual abuse, and trauma from both Iraqi and US women artists made me realize that one form of suffering is not more severe than another, and that US and Iraqi women’s stories have much in common. I was touched by Elham’s stories of the Yazidi women...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (2): 239–241.
Published: 01 July 2024
... Prize winners and Arab celebrities, including the Yemeni activist Tawakkul Karman, the Algerian novelist Ahlam Mosteghanemi, the Egyptian feminist pioneer Nawal El Saadawi, and the Yazidi Iraqi survivor of ISIS Nadia Murad. These are all interesting figures, but they don’t speak as much...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (1): 43–68.
Published: 01 March 2024
..., Migration, and Queer Lives .” Radical History Review , no. 120 : 94 – 107 . McClintock Anne . 1995 . Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest . New York : Routledge . McKernan Bethan . 2019 . “ ‘We Are Now Free’: Yazidis Fleeing Isis Start Over...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2022) 18 (3): 337–358.
Published: 01 November 2022
...—for the city where she grew up, which the extremists turned into their capital—recalled that women and girls from Iraq’s Yazidi religious community were brought to Raqqah to be sold as slaves. “They wanted to return people to the Middle Ages,” she said. “For this reason, we said Raqqah should be liberated...
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Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2008) 4 (1): 53–82.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of those who supported unveiling; they were the enemies of religion,
a group of cursed, ignorant individuals and immature lads who trusted
Jews, Armenians, Sabais, Yazidis, and Christians. Karkhi depicted a
member of this group as an infi del (ibahi), a master of the unbelievers
(qa’id al-kuff ar...
