Yezidis in Syria: Identity Building among a Double Minority traces the development of Yezidi identity on the margins of Syria’s minority context. his little-known group is connected to the community’s main living area in northern
The histories of minorities in the young nation states of the Middle East is one of marginalization, oppression and bloody violence. In the case of the Yezidis, as well as the Armenians in the early twentieth century,
The subject of this book is the Yezidis, a small group people whose historic and current stronghold is the Kurdish region of northern Iraq,
(Eds.) (2009): Maʾsāt al-Ēzidīyīn: al-Farmānāt wa Ḥamalāt al-Ibādah ḍidda l-Kūrd al-Ēzidīyīn ʿabra t-Tārīkh (Yezidi Tragedy: The Campaigns Against the Yezidis Throughout the History). Duhok: Khani Press.
The Kurds: An Encyclopedia of Life, Culture, and Society provides an insightful examination the Kurds—from their historical beginning to today—through thematic and country-specific essays as well as important primary documents that allow for a greater understanding of the diversity and pluralism of the region.
I Won’t Let Them Be Like Me: Ezidi Women’s Agency and Identity After the Sinjar Genocide: is a publication from the Yezidi Studies series, authored by R. Latham Lechowick, a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, delves into the impact of the 2014 Sinjar Genocide on Ezidi women and the resultant societal transformations.
What are the origins of Islamic hostility towards the Yezidis and their religion? Can the historical cycle of Islamic violence against them be resolved? And have Islamic jurists and scholars reconsidered their views on Yezidis and Yezidism after the genocide of 2014? All these are valid questions—to which this work seeks some answers.
Frozen in the Past gives the Yezidis survivors a voice. In haunting, unvarnished stories, they tell of imprisonment, rape, loss and the immeasurable suffering they had to endure. Rawan Fouad Abdi has spent years collecting these testimonies to come to terms with the crimes and to ensure that the world is listening. Frozen in the Past is thus more than a collection of survival stories – it is an appeal against forgetting and a call for justice.