Cathy Otten on Yezidi women and Iraq after the Islamic State
January 5, 2018
First Turkey Book Talk episode of 2018 – Arbil-based journalist CATHY OTTEN discusses “WITH ASH ON THEIR FACES: YEZIDI WOMEN AND THE ISLAMIC STATE” (OR Books), a deeply reported account of the suffering of the Yezidi religious minority over the border in Iraq.
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Here’s my review of the book at HDN.
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Recent reporting by Cathy Otten
- How ISIS Changed the Yezidi Religion – The Atlantic, 22/12/2107
- The Persian Leopards of Iraqi Kurdistan – Brown Book, October 2017
- Life after ISIS Slavery for Yazidi Women and Children – New Yorker, 31/08/2017
- Slaves of ISIS: The Long Walk of the Yazidi Women – The Guardian, 25/07/2017
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