The World Has Forgotten Us
sinjar and the islamic state’s genocide of the yezidis
$73.12
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
19 March 2022
Summary
The persecution of the Yezidis, a religious community originating in Upper Mesopotamia, has been ongoing since at least the 10th century. On 3 August 2014, Islamic State attacked the Yezidi community in Sinjar, Kurdistan. Thousands were enslaved or killed in this genocide, and 100,000 people fled to Mount Sinjar, permanently exiled from their homes.
Here, Thomas Schmidinger talks to the Yezidis in Iraq who tell the history of their people, why the genocide happened and how it affects …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745346052 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0745346057 |
| Author: | Thomas Schmidinger |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 19 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 294g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 135mm x 20mm |
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‘A comprehensive, indispensable work’ - ‘Sudwing’
‘A comprehensive, indispensable work’
– ‘Südwind’‘The discrimination, exclusion and persecution of the Yezidis did not just begin in 2014 with the so-called Islamic State. Thomas Schmidinger shows with great dedication the anatomy of a subtle genocide against the Yezidis in last two hundred years’
– Professor Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Director of the Institute for Genocide and Peace Studies, Stuttgart‘An important book delving into the history and recent memory of the community, a vivid reminder of how the past and present of the Yezidis continue to be painfully intertwined’
– Nelida Fuccaro, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the New York University Abu Dhabi‘Thomas Schmidinger is one the best experts on the region. This book is a must read’
– Josef Weidenholzer, former MEP and Professor Emeritus, University of Linz, Austria‘Fills a void in the literature. Through impressive first-hand documentation, the book explains the culture and history of this unique community in sympathetic terms and details the rapacious genocidal aggression of ISIS to obliterate this ancient Mesopotamian community’
– Tareq Y. Ismael, Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary, CanadaAbout The Author
Thomas Schmidinger
Thomas Schmidinger is a Political Scientist and Cultural Anthropologist based at the University of Vienna. He is Secretary General of the Austrian Association for Kurdish studies. He is the author of Rojava (Pluto, 2018), which received the Mezlum Bagok award. He has written extensively on Kurdistan, Sudan, Kosovo, jihadism, migration and Muslim communities in Europa.
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