... of northern Iraq, they turned on the long-established religious minorities in the area with tremendous brutality, especially toward the Yazidi religious minority. Huge numbers of men were executed, and women and children were abducted and subjected to sexual violence. In an attempt at systematic destruction...

... this genealogy, for instance, in Patricia Viseur Sellers and Jocelyn Getken Kestenbaum's 6 ( 2020 ) example of modern-day slave and sex trafficking, as they argue for the reanimation of international law's prohibition against the slave trade. They write, “It is undisputed that ISIS fighters enslaved Yazidi...

... nation-states. Indeed, displacement, mass violence, denial and assimilation, institutional racism, and discrimination have been common characteristics of Kurdish lives across the political landscapes of these hostile regimes. In Iraqi Kurdistan (Bashur), Kurds, Muslims, and Yazidis alike were...

... the colonial powers noticed and promoted.3 As it turned out, ethnic discord was the perfect distraction from the conversion of local miner- als into a commodity. Within Iraq, officials emphasized ethnic and sectarian differences among Kurds, Sunnis, Shias, Jews, Yazidis, and Assyrians through different...

... of the interview, A. was in her early thirties and studying political science. A. identified themselves as Yazidi and Kurdish during the interview and fled southern part of Kurdistan as a five-year old child with their parents. In the article, I aim to bring A.’s experiences to the center by attentively listening...

...-Nusra and ISIS. These have been the main actors who protected the Yazidis from the ISIS massacre in Iraq and secured their transportation. This was an important move on their part since with this move they not only have performed a transnational defense role but gained legitimacy among different...