As Baroness Nicholson stated; “What happened to Nadia and the thousands of other poor Yazidi women was absolutely shocking. Now, the world is finally waking up to the enormity of the crimes perpetrated against them. It is a Genocide. The sheer murderous brutality of the vile Daesh is almost beyond words.”
In The Beekeeper of Sinjar, the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail tells the harrowing stories of women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS.
In the midst of ISIS’s reign of terror and hatred, an unlikely hero has emerged: the Beekeeper. Once a trader selling his mountain honey across the region, when ISIS came to Sinjar he turned his knowledge of the local terrain to another, more dangerous use.
Along with a secret network of transporters, helpers, and former bootleggers, Abdullah Shrem smuggles brutalised Yazidi women to safety through the war-torn landscapes of Iraq, Syria, and Eastern Turkey.
“Telling my story of first, surviving genocide and then, as a captive of ISIS is not easy, but people must know.” The Last Girl is the remarkable and courageous story of Nadia Murad, a young Yazidi woman who is working with Amal Clooney to challenge the world in the ongoing fight against ISIS.
Ian Birrell of The Times has said: “The Last Girl offers powerful insight into the barbarity the Yazidi’s have suffered alongside glimpses into their mystical culture … this is an important book by a brave woman, a fresh testament to humankind’s potential for chilling and inexplicable evil.”
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